Habayia
| Habayia Temporal range: Late Triassic | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Order: | Therapsida |
| Suborder: | Cynodontia |
| Family: | †Traversodontidae |
| Genus: | †Habayia Godefroit, 1999 |
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Habayia is a genus of traversodontid cynodont from the Late Triassic of Belgium. A single postcanine tooth was found in Habay-la-Vieille in southern Belgium. Based on the size of the tooth, Habayia was very small. Habayia lived during the Rhaetian stage of the Late Triassic at a time when western Europe was an island archipelago due to high sea levels. The small size of Habayia may be a result of insular dwarfism.[1]
References
- ↑ Godefroit, P. (1999). "New traversodontid (Therapsida: Cynodontia) teeth from the Upper Triassic of Habay-la-Vieille (southern Belgium)". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 73 (3-4): 385–394. doi:10.1007/BF02988049.
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