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Holotheria

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Holotheria are a diverse group of mammals that are descendants of the last common ancestor of Kuehneotherium and Theria (the group that includes marsupials and placental mammals). [1]

55 relations: Aegialodon, Akidolestes, Ambondro mahabo, Ameridelphia, Amphidontidae, Amphilestidae, Amphitheriida, Amphitherium, Asfaltomylos, Asiadelphia, Ausktribosphenidae, Australidelphia, Chronoperates, Cladotheria, Dasyuromorphia, Deltatheroida, Diprotodontia, Dryolestida, Dryolestoidea, Epitheria, Eutriconodonta, Gobiconodon, Gobiconodonta, Holocene, Kuehneotheria, Kuehneotheriidae, Kuehneotherium, Late Triassic, Mammal, Maotherium, Marsupial, Marsupial mole, Microbiotheria, Montanalestes, Nanolestes, Paraphyly, Peramelemorphia, Peramuridae, Placentalia, Plesiorycteropus, Shuotherium, Spalacotheriidae, Symmetrodonta, Theria, Theriiformes, Thingodonta, Tinodon, Tinodontidae, Trechnotheria, Tribosphenida, ..., Vincelestes, Woutersia, Xenarthra, Zatheria, Zhangheotherium. Expand index (5 more) »

Aegialodon

Aegialodon dawsoni was a mammal from the early Cretaceous, known from fossilised teeth discovered in the Wadhurst Clay Formation (dating to about 136 million years ago) near Cliff End, Hastings, East Sussex.

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Akidolestes

Akidolestes cifellii is a genus of spalacotheriid mammal preserved with a complete post-cranium and a partial skull has been discovered from the Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China.

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Ambondro mahabo

Ambondro mahabo is a mammal from the middle Jurassic (about 167 million years ago) of Madagascar.

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Ameridelphia

Ameridelphia is traditionally a superorder that includes all marsupials living in the Americas except for the Monito del monte (Dromiciops).

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Amphidontidae

The Amphidontidae are a family of extinct mammals from the Early Cretaceous, belonging to the triconodonts.

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Amphilestidae

The Amphilestidae are a family of Mesozoic mammals, generally regarded as eutriconodonts.

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Amphitheriida

Amphitheriida is an order of Mesozoic mammals restricted to the Middle Jurassic of Britain.

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Amphitherium

Amphitherium is an extinct genus of stem cladotherian mammal that lived during the Middle Jurassic.

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Asfaltomylos

Asfaltomylos is an extinct genus of the primitive mammal subclass Australosphenida from the middle Jurassic of Argentina.

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Asiadelphia

Asiadelphia ("Asian opossum") is an order of Cretaceous Metatherians.

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Ausktribosphenidae

Ausktribosphenidae is a family of therians from the Early Cretaceous of Australia that are closely related to monotremes.

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Australidelphia

Australidelphia is the superorder that contains roughly three-quarters of all marsupials, including all those native to Australasia and a single species from South America (all other American marsupials are members of the Ameridelphia).

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Chronoperates

Chronoperates (meaning "time wanderer" in Greek) is an extinct genus of mammal whose remains have been found in a late Paleocene deposit in Alberta, Canada.

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Cladotheria

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

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Dasyuromorphia

The order Dasyuromorphia (meaning "hairy tail") comprises most of the Australian carnivorous marsupials, including quolls, dunnarts, the numbat, the Tasmanian devil, and the thylacine.

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Deltatheroida

Deltatheroida is an extinct group of basal metatherians that were distantly related to modern marsupials.

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Diprotodontia

The Diprotodontia (διπρωτός diprotos, meaning "two front" and οδοντος odontos meaning "teeth") are an order of about 125 species of marsupial mammals including the kangaroos, wallabies, possums, koala, wombats, and many others.

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Dryolestida

Dryolestida is an extinct order of mammals; most of the members are mostly known from the Jurassic to Paleogene, with one member, Necrolestes, surviving as late as the early Miocene.

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Dryolestoidea

Dryolestoidea is an extinct clade of Mesozoic mammals that only contains two orders.

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Epitheria

Epitherians comprise all the placental mammals except the Xenarthra.

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Eutriconodonta

Eutriconodonta is an order of early mammals.

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Gobiconodon

Gobiconodon is an extinct genus of carnivorous mammal from the early Cretaceous.

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Gobiconodonta

Gobiconodonta is an order of extinct mammals known from the Early Jurassic (such as Huasteconodon) to early Late Cretaceous.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch.

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Kuehneotheria

Kuehneotheria is a group of basal mammals that were once classified in the now paraphyletic Symmetrodonta.

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Kuehneotheriidae

Kuehneotheriidae is a family traditionally within 'Symmetrodonta', though now generally considered more basal than true symmetrodonts.

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Kuehneotherium

Kuehneotherium is an early mammaliaform genus that lived during the late Triassic period and is characterized by reversed-triangle pattern of molar cusps.

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Late Triassic

The Late Triassic is the third and final of three epochs of the Triassic Period in the geologic timescale.

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Mammal

Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.

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Maotherium

Maotherium is a genus extinct symmetrodont mammal that was discovered in Early Cretaceous rocks in Liaoning Province, China, in 2003.

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Marsupial

Marsupials are any members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia.

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Marsupial mole

Marsupial moles (Notoryctidae) are specialized marsupial mammals, known from two species distributed in the Australian interior.

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Microbiotheria

Microbiotheria is an australidelphian marsupial order that encompasses two families, Microbiotheriidae and Woodburnodontidae, and is represented by only one extant species, the monito del monte, and a number of extinct species known from fossils in South America, Western Antarctica, and northeastern Australia.

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Montanalestes

Montanalestes is an extinct mammal known from the Cretaceous in North America.

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Nanolestes

Nanolestes is an extinct genus of mammals in the order Amphitheriida.

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Paraphyly

In taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's last common ancestor and all descendants of that ancestor excluding a few—typically only one or two—monophyletic subgroups.

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Peramelemorphia

The order Peramelemorphia includes the bandicoots and bilbies; it equates approximately to the mainstream of marsupial omnivores.

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Peramuridae

The family Peramuridae is a possible ancestor of early therians.

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Placentalia

Placentalia ("Placentals") is one of the three extant subdivisions of the class of animals Mammalia; the other two are Monotremata and Marsupialia.

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Plesiorycteropus

Plesiorycteropus, also known as the bibymalagasy or Malagasy aardvark, is a recently extinct eutherian mammalian genus from Madagascar.

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Shuotherium

Shuotherium is a fossil mammal known from Middle-Late Jurassic of the Forest Marble Formation of England,Sigogneau−Russell, D. 1998.

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Spalacotheriidae

Spalacotheriidae is a family of extinct mammals belonging to the group Symmetrodonta.

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Symmetrodonta

Symmetrodonta is a group of Mesozoic mammals and mammal-like synapsids characterized by the triangular aspect of the molars when viewed from above and the absence of a well-developed talonid.

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Theria

Theria (Greek: θηρίον, wild beast) is a subclass of mammals amongst the Theriiformes (the sister taxa to Yinotheria).

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Theriiformes

Theriiformes is a subclass of mammals.

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Thingodonta

Thingodonta is the colloquial name given to an order of extinct Australian marsupials, first described in 1988 and known only from the Oligo-Miocene deposits of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia.

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Tinodon

Tinodon is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic mammal from the Morrison Formation.

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Tinodontidae

Tinodontidae is an extinct family of actively mobile mammal, endemic to what would now be North America, Asia, Europe, and Africa during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

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Trechnotheria

Trechnotheria is a group of mammals that includes the therians and some fossil mammals from the Mesozoic Era.

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Tribosphenida

Tribosphenida is a group (infralegion) of mammals that includes the ancestor of Hypomylos, Aegialodontia and Theria (the last common ancestor of marsupials and placentals plus all of its descendants).

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Vincelestes

Vincelestes ("Vince's thief") is an extinct genus of actively mobile mammal, that lived in what would be South America during the Early Cretaceous from 130—112 mya, existing for approximately.

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Woutersia

Woutersia was a Triassic kuehneotherid and the only representative of its family.

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Xenarthra

The superorder Xenarthra is a group of placental mammals, extant today only in the Americas and represented by anteaters, tree sloths, and armadillos.

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Zatheria

Zatheria is a group (sublegion) of mammals that includes the common ancestor of Arguimuridae, Vincelestidae, Peramuridae and Tribosphenida (living therians plus all of its ancestors).

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Zhangheotherium

Zhangheotherium is a genus of symmetrodont, an extinct order of mammals.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holotheria

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