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Eutheria (placental mammal)
Taxonomy
Eutheria was named by Huxley (1880) [not Eutheria Gill, 1872, which included Marsupialia]. It is extant.
It was reranked as the unranked clade Eutheria by Parker and Haswell (1897), McKenna (1975), Novacek et al. (1997), Averianov and Archibald (2005) and Wible et al. (2007); it was reranked as the subclass Eutheria by Luo et al. (2003); it was reranked as the infraclass Eutheria by Luo et al. (2011).
It was assigned to Tribosphenida by McKenna (1975) and Cifelli (1993); to Boreosphenida by Ji et al. (2002); to Theria by Parker and Haswell (1897), Gregory (1910), Sloan and Van Valen (1965), Lillegraven and McKenna (1986), Carroll (1988), Wible (1991), Averianov and Archibald (2005) and Scott (2010); to Mammalia by Huxley (1880), Cope (1889), Flower and Lydekker (1891) and Asher and Helgen (2010); and to Theria by Novacek et al. (1997), Luo et al. (2003), Wible et al. (2007) and Luo et al. (2011).
It was reranked as the unranked clade Eutheria by Parker and Haswell (1897), McKenna (1975), Novacek et al. (1997), Averianov and Archibald (2005) and Wible et al. (2007); it was reranked as the subclass Eutheria by Luo et al. (2003); it was reranked as the infraclass Eutheria by Luo et al. (2011).
It was assigned to Tribosphenida by McKenna (1975) and Cifelli (1993); to Boreosphenida by Ji et al. (2002); to Theria by Parker and Haswell (1897), Gregory (1910), Sloan and Van Valen (1965), Lillegraven and McKenna (1986), Carroll (1988), Wible (1991), Averianov and Archibald (2005) and Scott (2010); to Mammalia by Huxley (1880), Cope (1889), Flower and Lydekker (1891) and Asher and Helgen (2010); and to Theria by Novacek et al. (1997), Luo et al. (2003), Wible et al. (2007) and Luo et al. (2011).
Subtaxa
Acreodi (syn. Oxyclaenidae), Acristatherium, Arctocyonidae, Asioryctitheria (syn. Kennalestidae), Bibymalagasia, Cimolesta, Deltatherium (syn. Lipodectes), Digitigradae, Edentulae, Endotherium, Eomaia, Gliriformes, Holoclemensiidae, Horolodectes, Hydrophorae, Juramaia, Kennalestoidea, Leptictida, Mingotheriidae, Monochenae, Mutica, Nanocuridae, Notopterna, Oligodontae, Palaeoryctidae, Paleotomus, Pantolestidae (syn. Dyspternidae), Paranyctoides, Paraxonia, Placentalia (syn. Ungulatomorpha, Monodelphia, Atlantogenata), Plantigradae, Rosores, Ruminantes, Sahnitherium, Sazlestes, Taeniodonta, Tesserachenae, Therictoidea, Trichenae, Zalambdalestidae (syn. Kulbeckiidae), Zhelestidae (syn. Kumsuperus)
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Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1821 | Quadripedes Gray p. 300 |
| 1880 | Eutheria Huxley p. 657 |
| 1889 | Eutheria Cope p. 874 |
| 1891 | Eutheria Flower and Lydekker p. 89 |
| 1897 | Eutheria Parker and Haswell p. 449 |
| 1910 | Eutheria Gregory p. 464 |
| 1930 | Heptaconodon Zdansky pp. 58-59 figs. III: 22-23 |
| 1930 | Heptaconodon dubium Zdansky p. 58 figs. III: 22-23 |
| 1965 | Eutheria Sloan and Van Valen p. 221 |
| 1974 | Prozalambdalestes Trofimov |
| 1974 | Prozalambdalestes simpsoni Trofimov |
| 1975 | Eutheria McKenna p. 40 |
| 1986 | Eutheria Lillegraven and McKenna p. 37 |
| 1988 | Eutheria Carroll |
| 1991 | Eutheria Wible |
| 1993 | Eutheria Cifelli p. 9415 |
| 1997 | Eutheria Novacek et al. p. 483 |
| 2002 | Eutheria Ji et al. p. 816 |
| 2003 | Eutheria Luo et al. p. 1938 |
| 2005 | Eutheria Averianov and Archibald p. 595 |
| 2007 | Eutheria Wible et al. p. 1003 |
| 2010 | Eutheria Asher and Helgen p. 3 figs. Figure 1 |
| 2010 | Eutheria Scott p. 1452 |
| 2011 | Eutheria Luo et al. p. 444 |
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