Haramiyavia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | Therapsida |
Suborder: | Cynodontia |
Clade: | †Haramiyida |
Superfamily: | †Haramiyoidea |
Family: | †Haramiyaviidae |
Genus: |
†Haramiyavia Jenkins et al., 1997 |
Haramiyavia was a genus of proto-mammals in the Haramiyida clade that existed about 200-million-years-ago in the Norian/Rhaetian period of the Triassic. However, more recently, in November 2015, scientists reported that Haramiyavia, may not have been mammals after all, but part of a more ancestral side branch instead.
A study involving Mesozoic mammal dietary habits ranks it among insectivorous taxa.