| Archonta | |
|---|---|
| Olive Baboon | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Subclass: | Placentalia |
| Superorder: | Archonta |
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The Archonta are a group of mammals considered a superorder in some classifications.
The Archonta consist of the following orders:
Genetic analysis has suggested that the bats are not as closely related to the other groups as previously suspected. A revised category, Euarchonta, excluding bats, has been proposed.[1] [2]
It has been suggested that this taxon may have arisen in the Early Cretaceous (more than one hundred million years ago) and therefore did not radiate as believed following the cretaceous/tertiary extinction of the dinosaurs, instead related to events in the history of the Earth.[3]