Placentalia
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TranslingualEdit
EtymologyEdit
Proper nounEdit
Placentalia
- The clade originating with the last common ancestor of extant eutherians;
- (archaic) A taxonomic subclass within the class Mammalia.
- A taxonomic infraclass within the subclass Theria.[1]
SynonymsEdit
- (clade): Eutheria
HypernymsEdit
- (clade): Tetrapoda - superclass; Amniota, Synapsida - clade; Pelycosauria - informal group; Eupelycosauria - clade; Therapsida - order; Theriodontia, Cynodontia, Mammaliaformes - clades; Mammalia - class; Trechnotheria - subclass; Zatheria - infraclass; Theria - supercohort
HyponymsEdit
- (clade): Afrotheria, Euarchontoglires, Laurasiatheria, †Meridiungulata, Xenarthra - superorders
Further readingEdit
Eutheria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Placentalia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Placentalia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons- Eutheria at the Tree of Life Web Project
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521