Haramiyida

Haramiyida; Temporal range: Late Triassic–Early Cretaceous, Possible Maastrichtian record
	Lower jaw and restoration of Haramiyavia, a basal haramiyidan from the Triassic of Greenland
	Skull of Xianshou, a euharamiyidan from the Jurassic of China
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Synapsida
Clade:	Therapsida
Clade:	Cynodontia
Clade:	Mammaliaformes
Order:	†Haramiyida; Hahn, Sigogneau-Russell & Wouters, 1989
Subgroups
	†Kalaallitkigun; †Kollikodon?; †Haramiyoidea †Haramiyidae †Allostaffia?; †Avashishta; †Eoraetica; †Hypsiprymnopsis?; †Thomasia; ; †Haramiyaviidae †Haramiyavia; ; ; †Kirtlingtonia; †Avashishta; †Hahnodontidae †Cifelliodon; †Denisodon; †Hahnodon; ; †Hahnotheriidae †Hahnotherium; ; †Theroteinida †Theroteinidae †Theroteinus; ; ; †Euharamiyida; ?†Gondwanatheria;

Haramiyida is a possibly polyphyletic order of mammaliaform cynodonts or mammals of controversial taxonomic affinites. Their teeth, which are by far the most common remains, resemble those of the multituberculates. However, based on Haramiyavia, the jaw is less derived; and at the level of evolution of earlier basal mammals like Morganucodon and Kuehneotherium, with a groove for ear ossicles on the dentary. Some authors have placed them in a clade with Multituberculata dubbed Allotheria within Mammalia. Other studies have disputed this and suggested the Haramiyida were not crown mammals, but were part of an earlier offshoot of mammaliaformes instead. It is also disputed whether the Late Triassic species are closely related to the Jurassic and Cretaceous members belonging to Euharamiyida/Eleutherodontida, as some phylogenetic studies recover the two groups as unrelated, recovering the Triassic haramiyidians as non-mammalian cynodonts, while recovering the Euharamiyida as crown-group mammals closely related to multituberculates.

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