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Boreoeutheria are mammals that are the third superorder of placental mammals.[1]

They evolved on the northern supercontinent Laurasia after it split from Gondwana when Pangaea broke up.

Boreoeutheria
Temporal range: Paleocene–Recent
Euarchontoglires and Laurasiatheria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Eutheria
Infraclass: Placentalia
Magnorder: Boreoeutheria
Springer & de Jong, 2001;[2] Murphy et al., 2001[3]
Superorders
Synonyms
  • Boreoplacentalia (Arnason, 2008)[4]
  • Boreotheria (Waddell, 2001)[5]

References[change | change source]

  1. "Boreoeutheria - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics". www.sciencedirect.com. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
  2. Springer MS, de Jong WW (2001). "Which mammalian supertree to bark up?". Science. 291: 1709–1711.
  3. Murphy WJ, Eizirik E, O'Brien SJ, Madsen O, Scally M, Douady CJ, et al. (December 2001). "Resolution of the early placental mammal radiation using Bayesian phylogenetics". Science. 294 (5550): 2348–2351. Bibcode:2001Sci...294.2348M. doi:10.1126/science.1067179. PMID 11743200. S2CID 34367609.
  4. Arnason U., Adegoke J. A., Gullberg A., Harley E. H., Janke A., Kullberg M. (2008.) "Mitogenomic relationships of placental mammals and molecular estimates of their divergences." Gene.; 421(1-2):37–51
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