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Placentalia
Taxonomy
Placentalia was named by Owen (1837). It is extant.
It was reranked as the order Placentalia by Olson (1966).
It was assigned to Theria by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Mammalia by Owen (1837), Bonaparte (1850), Olson (1966) and Seiffert and Simons (2000); to Theria by Shoshani and Tassy (2005); to Eutheria by Horovitz (2003), Averianov and Archibald (2005), Wible et al. (2007) and Asher and Helgen (2010); and to Eutheria by Luo et al. (2011).
It was reranked as the order Placentalia by Olson (1966).
It was assigned to Theria by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Mammalia by Owen (1837), Bonaparte (1850), Olson (1966) and Seiffert and Simons (2000); to Theria by Shoshani and Tassy (2005); to Eutheria by Horovitz (2003), Averianov and Archibald (2005), Wible et al. (2007) and Asher and Helgen (2010); and to Eutheria by Luo et al. (2011).
Subtaxa
Afrotheria (syn. Afroplacentalia), Boreoeutheria (syn. Boreotheria, Boreoplacentalia), Educabilia, Epitheria, Euarchontoglires (syn. Archontoglires, Supraprimates), Exafroplacentalia, Ineducabilia, Laurasiatheria (syn. Laurasiaplacentalia), Lipotyphla, Mutilata, Panameriungulata, Petrolemuridae, Widanelfarasia, Xenarthra (syn. Minerva, Edentata)
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Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1837 | Placentalia Owen p. 903 |
| 1850 | Placentalia Bonaparte p. 1 |
| 1871 | Monodelphia Gill p. 45 |
| 1889 | Monodelphia Cope p. 874 |
| 1930 | Monodelphia Hay p. 396 |
| 1966 | Placentalia Olson p. 302 |
| 1996 | Ungulatomorpha Archibald |
| 1997 | Ungulatomorpha Averianov p. 249 |
| 1997 | Placentalia McKenna and Bell p. 80 |
| 1998 | Ungulatomorpha Archibald |
| 1998 | Ungulatomorpha Nessov et al. p. 45 |
| 1999 | Atlantogenata Waddell et al. p. cover |
| 2000 | Placentalia Seiffert and Simons p. 2646 |
| 2003 | Placentalia Horovitz |
| 2004 | Ungulatomorpha Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 494, 509 |
| 2005 | Placentalia Averianov and Archibald p. 595 |
| 2005 | Placentalia Shoshani and Tassy p. 9 figs. Table 2 |
| 2007 | Placentalia Wible et al. |
| 2010 | Atlantogenata Asher and Helgen p. 3 figs. Figure 1 |
| 2010 | Placentalia Asher and Helgen p. 3 figs. Figure 1 |
| 2011 | Placentalia Luo et al. p. 444 |
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