Theriiformes Temporal range:
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Kangaroo with her joey | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Theriimorpha |
Clade: | Theriiformes Rowe, 1988 |
Subgroups | |
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]
Mammalia |
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