Haramiyavia Explained

Haramiyavia is a genus of synapsid in the clade Haramiyida that existed about 200 million years ago in the Rhaetian stage of the Triassic.[1] Like other haramiyidans, it was likely a non-mammalian mammaliaform.[2] [3] It contains a single species, H. clemmenseni from the Fleming Fjord Formation of Greenland, and has been assigned to the monogeneric family Haramiyaviidae.[4]

Biology

A study involving Mesozoic mammaliaform dietary habits ranks it among insectivorous taxa.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Jenkins . F.A. . Gatesy . S.M. . Shubin . N.H. . Amaral . W.W. . Haramiyids and Triassic mammalian evolution . Nature . 1997 . 385 . 6618 . 715–718. 10.1038/385715a0 . 9034187 . 1997Natur.385..715J . 4345396 .
  2. News: Chang . Kenneth . Jawbone in Rock May Clear Up a Mammal Family Mystery . 16 November 2015 . . 17 November 2015 .
  3. Luo . Zhe-Xi . Gates. Stephen M. . Jenkins Jr. . Farish A. . Amaral . William W. . Shubin . Neil H. . Mandibular and dental characteristics of Late Triassic mammaliaform Haramiyavia and their ramifications for basal mammal evolution . 10.1073/pnas.1519387112 . 16 November 2015 . . 4697399 . 26630008 . 112 . 51 . E7101-9. 2015PNAS..112E7101L . free .
  4. Butler . P.M. . Review of the early allotherian mammals . Acta Palaeontologica Polonica . 2000 . 45 . 4 . 317–342.
  5. David M. Grossnickle, P. David Polly, Mammal disparity decreases during the Cretaceous angiosperm radiation, Published 2 October 2013.DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2110

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