Talk:Xenarthra

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The Goloboff et al., 2009 paper places Xenarthra as sister to Euarchontoglires, not Boreoeutheria. The Evolutionary History section describing this paper was changed to reflect this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.255.128.55 (talk) 02:52, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The sentence about Goloboff is POV and undue weight. The rest of the paragraph says it all. Zyxwv99 (talk) 16:17, 25 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I edited the page where the links to "

The classification includes no fossil taxa, while showing extant forms in great detail, down to species level. I think we can improve this, since xenarthrans have some major, well-known extinct sub-groups.Cephal-odd (talk) 21:22, 27 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I was unclear in my edit summary. I removed the sentence "The Xenarthra are part of the super-cohort Atlantogenata" because the following sentence is "Xenarthra may be most closely related to either Afrotheria (in the group Atlantogenata), or Epitheria (comprising Afrotheria and Boreoeutheria)." Xenarthra cannot be both in Atlantogenata and outside Epitheria, where Epitheria includes Afrotheria. Atlantogenata means Afrotheria+Xenarthra. If Xenarthra is outside Epitheria and Afrotheria is in Epitheria, then Atlantogenata is not a valid clade. A flat statement that Xenarthra is in Atlantogenata (sentence 1) contradicts a statement that Xenarthra may or may not be in Atlantogenata (sentence 2).--Cam (talk) 18:54, 18 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I am removing "previously known as Tardigrada or Phyllophaga" since these are invertebrates! A long uncorrected joke? Text prior was:

• Whatever the rank, Xenarthra is now generally considered to be divided into two orders: Cingulata, which contains the armadillos; and Pilosa, which contains the Vermilingua (anteaters) and Folivora (sloths; previously known as Tardigrada or Phyllophaga). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Backboned (talk • contribs) 20:48, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Tardigrada and Phyllophaga refers to non-vertebrates taxa, but they also refers to sloths.^[1] Manudouz (talk) 10:12, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply

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