Necromanis

Necromanis ("extinct pangolin") is an extinct genus of pangolin from superfamily Manoidea.^[5] It lived from the middle Oligocene to middle Miocene in Europe. It was originally placed within family Manidae, but was eventually removed from it as more fossil pholidotids from outside that family were found and studied more extensively (i.e., with the discovery and study of Eomanis and Patriomanis).^[6] Currently, Necromanis is placed as incertae sedis within the pholidotid superfamily Manoidea, together with the families Manidae and Patriomanidae.^[5]

Phylum:Chordata

Class:Mammalia

Infraclass:Placentalia

Order:Pholidota

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Necromanis Temporal range: 28.8–12.75 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Pal. Eocene Oligo. Miocene P P Middle Oligocene to Middle Miocene
illustration of Necromanis quercyi skull
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Placentalia
Order:	Pholidota
Suborder:	Eupholidota
Superfamily:	Manoidea
Genus:	†Necromanis Filhol, 1894
Type species
†Necromanis franconica Quenstedt, 1886
Species
†N. franconica (Quenstedt, 1885)[1] †N. parva (Koenigswald, 1969)[2] †N. quercyi (Filhol, 1894)[3]
Synonyms
synonyms of genus: Galliaetatus (Ameghino, 1905) Leptomanis (Filhol, 1894) Necrodasypus (Filhol, 1894) Teutomanis (Ameghino, 1905) synonyms of species: N. franconica: Galliaetatus schlosseri (Ameghino, 1905) Lutra franconica (Quenstedt, 1885) Teutomanis franconica Teutomanis quenstedti (Ameghino, 1905) N. quercyi: Leptomanis edwardsi (Filhol, 1894) Necromanis edwardsi (Koenigswald & Martin, 1990)[4]

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N. quercyi was originally placed within Teutomanis by Ameghino in 1905, but was later subsumed into Necromanis. A new fossil humerus attributed to N. franconica from Quercy, France, led researchers to reaffirm Teutomanis quercyi's status as distinct from Necromanis.^[7]