Theriiformes


Theriiformes
Temporal range:
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Kangaroo with her joey
Scientific classification e
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

Australosphenida

Theriimorpha

Fruitafossor

Eutriconodonta

Theriiformes

Gondwanatheria

Multituberculata

Trechnotheria

Spalacotherioidea

Cladotheria

Dryolestoidea

Theria

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