Hypsiprymnopsis Dawkins 1864 (mammaliaform)

Osteichthyes - Therapsida - Haramiyidae

Full reference: W. B. Dawkins. 1864. On the Rhaetic beds and White Lias of western and central Somerset; and on the discovery of a new fossil mammal in the grey marlstones below the bone-bed. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 20:396-412

Parent taxon: Microcleptidae according to F. v. Huene 1940

See also Dawkins 1864 and Simpson 1928

Sister taxon: Thomasia

Subtaxa: Hypsiprymnopsis rhaeticus

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Type: Hypsiprymnopsis rhaeticus

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Distribution: found only at east side, Blue Anchor Point, Watchet (Triassic of the United Kingdom)

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