Avashishta

Avashishta
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: Cynodontia
Clade: Mammaliaformes
Order: Haramiyida
Genus: Avashishta
Anantharaman et al, 2006
Species:
A. bacharamensis
Binomial name
Avashishta bacharamensis
Anantharaman et al, 2006

Avashishta bacharamensis ('remains from Bacharam') is an extinct genus of a possibly late surviving haramiyid from the Maastrichtian Lameta formation of India. It is known from a solitary molariform (possibly a right upper molariform) tooth. It might represent the last known non-mammalian synapsid.

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