The first haramiyoid mammal from Asia.

Naturwissenschaften

Institut und Museum für Geologie und Paläontologie, Sigwartstr. 10, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.

Published: January 2005

A lower molar of a haramiyoid mammal is described from the Toutunhe Formation of Liuhuanggou near Urumqi in the southern Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China. It is referred to Eleutherodon sp., otherwise exclusively known from the Upper Bathonian of England. It is the first record of the order Haramiyida from Asia and the first Mesozoic mammal described from the southern Junggar Basin. Apart from the English specimens of Eleutherodon and Staffia from the Upper Jurassic of East Africa, it is the geologically youngest haramiyoid known. It is the first vertebrate taxon from the Toutunhe Formation that is probably not endemic and lends some support to the dating of the Formation as late Middle Jurassic, probably Bathonian.

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The first haramiyoid mammal from Asia.

Naturwissenschaften

January 2005

Institut und Museum für Geologie und Paläontologie, Sigwartstr. 10, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.

A lower molar of a haramiyoid mammal is described from the Toutunhe Formation of Liuhuanggou near Urumqi in the southern Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China. It is referred to Eleutherodon sp., otherwise exclusively known from the Upper Bathonian of England.

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