Haramiyidae

Haramiyida is a possibly paraphyletic order of mammaliaform cynodonts or mammals of controversial taxonomic affinites. Their teeth, which are by far the most common remains, resemble those of the multituberculates. However, based on Haramiyavia, the jaw is less derived; and at the level of evolution of earlier basal mammals like Morganucodon and Kuehneotherium, with a groove for ear ossicles on the dentary. Some authors have placed them in a clade with Multituberculata dubbed Allotheria within Mammalia. Other studies have disputed this and suggested the Haramiyida were not crown group mammals, but were part of an earlier offshoot of Mammaliaformes instead, either closely related or unrelated to Multituberculates. It is also disputed whether the Late Triassic species are closely related to the Jurassic and Cretaceous members belonging to Euharamiyida/Eleutherodontida, as some phylogenetic studies recover the two groups as unrelated, recovering the Triassic haramiyidians as non-mammalian cynodonts, while recovering the Euharamiyida as crown-group mammals closely related to multituberculates.

Haramiyidae

Zhe-Xi Luo, Illustration by April Neander · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HaramiyoideaPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Mammaliaformes
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Mammaliaformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 1.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 199.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 184.2 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 31 of 34 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 34 occurrencesEarly Jurassic228–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences227–225 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences225–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–222 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences221–219 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences215–213 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206–204 Mya — about 10 occurrences204–203 Mya — about 10 occurrences203–201 Mya — about 10 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences200–198 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences198–197 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences197–195 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences195–194 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences191–189 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences188–186 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–183 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201.4 Mya – 199.5 Mya228.2 Mya183.3 Mya

34 occurrences of Haramiyidae on record. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

34 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

9 formations

Exter — 48.67°N, 9.14°EExter — 48.56°N, 9.07°EKlettgau — 47.71°N, 8.45°EGrès à Avicula contorta — 48.62°N, 6.33°EGrès de Mortinsart — 49.71°N, 5.62°EGrès de Mortinsart — 49.75°N, 5.79°ETrossingen — 51.90°N, 11.07°EKayenta — 35.76°N, 111.08°WGrès de Boisset — 46.91°N, 5.90°EBlue Anchor — 51.18°N, 3.38°WSables de Mortinsart — 49.71°N, 5.62°E

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The named rock units Haramiyidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

194 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Haramiyidae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

15 references

Each of the 34 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 3 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Haramiyidae

Credit
Zhe-Xi Luo, Illustration by April Neander
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Haramiyidae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Simpson 1940