''Haramiyavia'' ("thief grandmother" from Arabic الحرامية (al ḥarāmiyah), "thief, '' Haramiya''" + Latin avia, "grandmother") is a genus of

synapsid Synapsids + (, 'arch') > () "having a fused arch"; synonymous with ''theropsids'' (Greek, "beast-face") are one of the two major groups of animals that evolved from basal amniotes, the other being the sauropsids, the group that includes reptil ...

in the clade Haramiyida that existed about 200 million years ago in the Rhaetian stage of the

Triassic The Triassic ( ) is a geologic period and system (stratigraphy), system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago (Year#Abbreviations yr and ya, Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.36 ...

. Like other haramiyidans, it was likely a non-mammalian

mammaliaform Mammaliaformes ("mammalian forms") is a clade that contains the crown group mammals and their closest extinct relatives; the group radiated from earlier probainognathian cynodonts. It is defined as the clade originating from the most recent comm ...

. 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. ...

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 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