Cladotheria

Cladotherians Temporal range: Middle Jurassic - Holocene, 165–0 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Clade:	Trechnotheria
Clade:	Cladotheria McKenna, 1975
Subgroups
†Dryolestoidea Zatheria

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

Below is a cladogram from Rowe (1988) and McKenna and Bell (1997) showing one hypothesis of mammal relationships:

†Morganucodontidae

Prototheria→Monotremata

†Allotheria→†Multituberculata

†Kuehneotheria

†Zhangheotherium †("Symmetrodonta")

†Dryolestoidea

†Peramura

†Aegialodontia

Metatheria→Marsupialia

Eutheria→Placentalia

Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, Richard L. Cifelli, and Zhe-Xi Luo, Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs: Origins, Evolution, and Structure (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), 14, 531.

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