Necromanis ("extinct pangolin") is an
extinctgenus of
pangolin from superfamily
Manoidea. It lived from the middle
Oligocene to middle
Miocene in
Europe. It was originally placed within family
Manidae, but was eventually removed from it as more fossil pholidotids from outside that family were found and studied more extensively (i.e., with the discovery and study of Eomanis and Patriomanis).[5] Currently, Necromanis is placed as incertae sedis within the pholidotid superfamily Manoidea, together with the families Manidae and
Patriomanidae.[6]
N. quercyi was originally placed within Teutomanis by Ameghino in 1905, but was later subsumed into Necromanis. A new fossil humerus attributed to N. franconica from
Quercy, France lead researchers to reaffirm Teutomanis quercyi's status as distinct from Necromanis.[7]
Phylogeny
Phylogenetic position of genus Necromanis within superfamily Manoidea.[6][8]
^Gaudin, Timothy J., Robert J. Emry, and Brandon Pogue. "A new genus and species of pangolin (Mammalia, Pholidota) from the late Eocene of Inner Mongolia, China." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26.1 (2006): 146-159.
^CROCHET, J. Y., HAUTIER, L., & LEHMANN, T. (2015). A pangolin (Manidae, Pholidota, Mammalia) from the French Quercy phosphorites (Pech du Fraysse, Saint-Projet, Tarn-et-Garonne, late Oligocene, MP 28). Palaeovertebrata, 39(2), e4.