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| image_caption = [[Eastern gray kangaroo|Kangaroo]] with her [[Marsupial|joey]] |
| image_caption = [[Eastern gray kangaroo|Kangaroo]] with her [[Marsupial|joey]] |
Revision as of 23:32, 12 September 2022
Theriiformes Temporal range: Early Jurassic - Holocene,
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Theriimorpha |
Clade: | Theriiformes Rowe, 1988 |
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Theriiformes is a clade of mammals. The term was coined by Timothy B. Rowe in his doctoral dissertation,[1] and is defined as the clade formed by the most recent common ancestor of multituberculates and therians, and all its descendants.[2]
The cladogram below follows Luo et al. (2016):[3]
References
- ^ Rowe, T. (1988). "Definition, diagnosis, and origin of Mammalia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 8 (3): 241–264. doi:10.1080/02724634.1988.10011708.
- ^ Macrini, T. E.; Rougier, G. W.; Rowe, T. (2007). "Description of a Cranial Endocast from the Fossil Mammal Vincelestes neuquenianus (Theriiformes) and its Relevance to the Evolution of Endocranial Characters in Therians". The Anatomical Record: Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology. 290 (7): 875–892. doi:10.1002/ar.20551.
- ^ Luo, Z.-X.; Schultz, J. A.; Ekdale, E. G. (2016). "Evolution of the Middle and Inner Ears of Mammaliaforms: The Approach to Mammals". Evolution of the Vertebrate Ear. 59: 139–174. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-46661-3_6.