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Boreoeutheria (/boʊˌriːoʊjuːˈθɛriə/, "northern true beasts") is a
magnorder of
placental mammals that
groups together superorders Euarchontoglires and...
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there are
three major subdivisions or
lineages of
placental mammals:
Boreoeutheria, Xenarthra, and Afrotheria. All of
these diverged from
common ancestors...
- continents, respectively,
presumably in the Cretaceous.
Together with
Boreoeutheria, they make up Placentalia. The
monophyly of this
grouping is supported...
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sister group to
Euarchontoglires with
which it
forms the
magnorder Boreoeutheria.
Laurasiatheria was
discovered on the
basis of the
similar gene sequences...
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result of
convergent evolution.
Euarchontoglires probably split from the
Boreoeutheria magnorder about 85 to 95
million years ago,
during the Cretaceous, and...
- moles;
shrews are
related to
rodents only in that both
belong to the
Boreoeutheria magnorder.
Shrews have sharp, spike-like teeth,
whereas rodents have...
- the
group Atlantogenata), or to
Boreoeutheria (in the
group Exafroplacentalia), or to
Epitheria (Afrotheria+
Boreoeutheria, i.e. as a
sister group to all...
- eutherians, more
basal to Placentalia. The
weakly favoured cladogram favours Boreoeutheria as a
basal eutherian clade as
sister to the Atlantogenata. Phylogeny...
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groups or
lineages of
placental mammals, Afrotheria, Xenarthra, and
Boreoeutheria.
which diverged from
early common ancestors in the Cretaceous. The relationships...
- The
class Mammalia (mammals) is
divided into two
subclasses based on
reproductive techniques: monotremes,
which lay eggs, and therians,
mammals which give...
