Cladotheria

Cladotherians
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic - Holocene, 165–0Ma
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Superlegion: Trechnotheria
Legion: Cladotheria
McKenna, 1975
Subgroups

Cladotheria is a group (legion) of mammals that includes the ancestor of Dryolestoidea, Peramuridae and Zatheria (living Therians plus all of its descendants).

Phylogeny

Below is a cladogram from Rowe (1988) and McKenna and Bell (1997) showing one hypothesis of mammal relationships:[1][2]

Mammaliaformes 

†Morganucodontidae


Mammalia 

Prototheria→Monotremata


Theriiformes

†Allotheria→†Multituberculata


Holotheria

†Kuehneotheria


Trechnotheria

†Zhangheotherium †("Symmetrodonta")


 Cladotheria 

†Dryolestoidea


 Zatheria 

†Peramura


Tribosphenida

†Aegialodontia


 Theria 

Metatheria→Marsupialia

Eutheria→Placentalia











Further reading

Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, Richard L. Cifelli, and Zhe-Xi Luo, Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs: Origins, Evolution, and Structure (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), 14, 531.

References

  1. ↑ Rowe, Timothy (1988). "Definition, diagnosis, and origin of Mammalia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 8 (3): 241–264. doi:10.1080/02724634.1988.10011708. ISSN 0272-4634.
  2. ↑ McKenna, Malcolm C.; Bell, Susan K. (1997). Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press. pp. 9–10. ISBN 978-0-231-11012-9. Retrieved 16 March 2015.

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