Orhaniyeia is an extinct genus of anatoliadelphyid that inhabited Turkey during the Eocene epoch. It contains the species Orhaniyeia nauta.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Family: | †Anatoliadelphyidae |
| Genus: | †Orhaniyeia Métais et. al., 2018 |
| Species: | †O. nauta
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| †Orhaniyeia nauta Métais et. al., 2018
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Distribution
editOrhaniyeia nauta is known from the Pontide terrane of what was then the continent of Balkanatolia, living during the Lutetian about 43 Ma.[1]
Palaeoecology
editBased on its dentition, O. nauta was durophagous and probably fed on gastropods.[2]
References
edit- ^ Métais, Grégoire; Coster, Pauline M.; Kappelman, John R.; Licht, Alexis; Ocakoğlu, Faruk; Taylor, Michael H.; Beard, K. Christopher (14 November 2018). Ni, Xijun (ed.). "Eocene metatherians from Anatolia illuminate the assembly of an island fauna during Deep Time". PLoS One. 13 (11): e0206181. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0206181. hdl:1808/29962. ISSN 1932-6203. PMID 30427946. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
- ^ Beard, K. Christopher; Coster, Pauline M. C.; Ocakoğlu, Faruk; Licht, Alexis; Métais, Grégoire (4 September 2023). "Dental anatomy, phylogenetic relationships and paleoecology of Orhaniyeia nauta (Metatheria, Anatoliadelphyidae), a Gondwanan component of the insular Eocene mammal fauna of Balkanatolia (north-central Turkey)". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 30 (4): 859–872. doi:10.1007/s10914-023-09680-6. ISSN 1064-7554. Retrieved 9 December 2024 – via Springer Nature Link.