Tethytheria
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Grandorder: | Paenungulata |
| Mirorder: | Tethytheria McKenna 1975 |
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Tethytheria is a clade of mammals that includes the sirenians and proboscideans, as well as the extinct order Embrithopoda.[1]
Though there is strong anatomical and molecular support for the
Perissodactyla, along with the Early Eocene family Anthracobunidae, which was considered a sister group to Tethytheria.[2][3]
Systematics
Cladogram modified from Rose 2006 and Cooper et al. 2014.[4]
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Classification
Classification modified from Rose 2006.[2]
- Clade Tethytheria
- order †Embrithopoda
- order Sirenia
- †Prorastomidae
- †Protosirenidae (Dugongidae?)
- Dugongidae
- Trichechidae
- order Proboscidea
- †Phosphatheriidae (Numidotheriidae?)
- †Numidotheriidae
- †Moeritheriidae
- †Barytheriidae
- †Deinotheriidae
- †Palaeomastodontidae
- †Phiomiidae
- †Hemimastodontidae
- †Mammutidae
- †Gomphotheriidae
- Elephantidae
Notes
- ^ Tethytheria in the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved April 2013.
- ^ a b Rose 2006, pp. 242–3
- PMID 25295875.
- ^ Rose 2006, p. 213
References
- McKenna, M.C. (1975). "Toward a phylogenetic classification of the Mammalia". In Luckett, W.P.; Szalay, F.S. (eds.). Phylogeny of the primates: a multidisciplinary approach (Proceedings of WennerGren Symposium no. 61, Burg Wartenstein, Austria, July 6–14, 1974. New York: Plenum. pp. 21–46. ISBN 978-1-4684-2168-2.
- Rose, Kenneth David (2006). The beginning of the age of mammals. Baltimore: JHU Press. ISBN 0801884721.
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