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morphological diversity of
afrotherian mammals has
provided ever
increasing support for
their common ancestry. The
afrotherian clade was
originally proposed...
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Paenungulatomorpha is a
clade of
afrotherian mammals that can be
characterized according to
Gheerbrant et al. (2016): by a
mandibular retromolar fossa...
- A
tenrec (/ˈtɛnrɛk/) is a
mammal belonging to any
species within the
afrotherian family Tenrecidae,
which is
endemic to Madagascar.
Tenrecs are a very...
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Potamogalidae is the
family of "otter shrews", a
group of
semiaquatic riverine afrotherian mammals indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa. They are most
closely related...
- June 2013. Seiffert, Erik; Guillon, J.M. (2007). "A new
estimate of
Afrotherian phylogeny based on
simultaneous analysis of genomic, morphological, and...
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Orycteropodidae is a
family of
afrotherian mammals.
Although there are many
fossil species, the only
species surviving today is the aardvark, Orycteropus...
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desmostylians – two
lineages that have been
previously classified as
Afrotherians (more
specifically closer to elephants) – have been
classified as a clade...
- The
major clades are colored:
marsupials (magenta),
xenarthrans (orange),
afrotherians (red),
laurasiatherians (green), and
euarchontoglirans (blue)....
- Stanhope,
Michael J.; Okada,
Norihiro (2005). "A
Retroposon Analysis of
Afrotherian Phylogeny".
Molecular Biology and Evolution. 22 (9): 1823–1833. doi:10...
- PMC 1838468. PMID 17372202. Seiffert, Erik R (2007). "A new
estimate of
afrotherian phylogeny based on
simultaneous analysis of genomic, morphological, and...
