''Haramiyavia'' ("thief grandmother" from Arabic الحرامية (al ḥarāmiyah), "thief, ''

Haramiya ''Thomasia'' is a mammaliaform from the family Haramiyidae. from the Late Triassic of Europe. Only its teeth have been found.Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, Richard L. Cifelli, and Zhe-Xi Luo, Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs: Origins, Evolution, a ...

''" + Latin avia, "grandmother") is a genus of synapsid in the clade

Haramiyida Haramiyida ("thief" from Arabic الحرامية (al ḥarāmiyah), "thief, bandit") is a possibly polyphyletic order of mammaliaform cynodonts or mammals of controversial taxonomic affinites. Their teeth, which are by far the most common remains ...

that existed about 200 million years ago in the

Rhaetian The Rhaetian is the latest age of the Triassic Period (in geochronology) or the uppermost stage of the Triassic System (in chronostratigraphy). It was preceded by the Norian and succeeded by the Hettangian (the lowermost stage or earliest age ...

stage of the Triassic. Like other haramiyidans, it was likely a non-mammalian mammaliaform. It contains a single species, ''H. clemmenseni'' from the

Fleming Fjord Formation The Fleming Fjord Formation, alternatively called the Fleming Fjord Group is an Upper Triassic geological formation in the northeastern coast of Jameson Land, Greenland. It consists of terrestrial sediments and is known for its fossil content. De ...

of Greenland, and has been assigned to the

monogeneric In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispec ...

family Haramiyaviidae. Haramiyavia clemmenseni dentary

Biology

A study involving Mesozoic mammaliaform dietary habits ranks it among

insectivorous A robber fly eating a hoverfly An insectivore is a carnivorous animal or plant that eats insects. An alternative term is entomophage, which can also refer to the human practice of eating insects. The first vertebrate insectivores were ...

taxa.David M. Grossnickle, P. David Polly, Mammal disparity decreases during the Cretaceous angiosperm radiation, Published 2 October 2013.DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2110

References

Haramiyida Rhaetian life Late Triassic synapsids Triassic Greenland Fossils of Greenland Fossil taxa described in 1997 Triassic synapsids of North America Prehistoric cynodont genera {{paleo-therapsid-stub