Biology:Sineleutherus

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Short description: Extinct genus of mammaliaforms

Sineleutherus
Temporal range: Jurassic, Bathonian–Oxfordian
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: Cynodontia
Clade: Mammaliaformes
Order: Haramiyida
Family: Eleutherodontidae
Genus: Sineleutherus
Martin, Averianov & Pfretzschner, 2010
Species
  • S. uyguricus Martin, Averianov & Pfretzschner, 2010 (type)
  • S. issedonicus Averianov, Lopatin & Krasnolutskii, 2011

Sineleutherus is an extinct genus of euharamiyids which existed in Asia during the Jurassic period. The type species is Sineleutherus uyguricus, which was described by Thomas Martin, Alexander O. Averianov and Hans-Ulrich Pfretzschner in 2010; it lived in what is now China during the late Jurassic (Oxfordian age) Qigu Formation.[1] A second species, Sineleutherus issedonicus, was described by A. O. Averianov, A. V. Lopatin and S. A. Krasnolutskii in 2011. It lived in what is now Sharypovsky District (Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia ) during the middle Jurassic (Bathonian age); its fossils were collected from the upper part of the Itat Formation.[2] However, this is now believed to represent several euharamiyid taxa not closey related to Sineleutherus.[3]

Euharamiyida

Shenshou

Arboroharamiya

Eleutherodon

Sineleutherus

Xianshou

X. linglong

X. songae

Mammalian tooth marks on dinosaur bones may belong to Sineleutherus, suggesting that some haramiyidans scavenged on dinosaur remains.[4]

References

  1. Thomas Martin, Alexander O. Averianov and Hans-Ulrich Pfretzschner (2010). "Mammals from the Late Jurassic Qigu Formation in the Southern Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, Northwest China". Paleobiodiversity, Palaeoenvironments 90 (3): 295–319. doi:10.1007/s12549-010-0030-4. 
  2. A. O. Averianov, A. V. Lopatin and S. A. Krasnolutskii (2011). "The first Haramiyid (Mammalia, Allotheria) from the Jurassic of Russia". Doklady Biological Sciences 437 (1): 103–106. doi:10.1134/S0012496611020074. PMID 21562957. 
  3. Averianov, Alexander O.; Martin, Thomas; Lopatin, Alexey V.; Schultz, Julia A.; Schellhorn, Rico; Krasnolutskii, Sergei; Skutschas, Pavel; Ivantsov, Stepan (2019-11-05). "Haramiyidan mammals from the Middle Jurassic of Western Siberia, Russia. Part 1: Shenshouidae and Maiopatagium" (in en). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: e1669159. doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1669159. ISSN 0272-4634. 
  4. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-020-01688-9

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