Eutheria

From Ancient Greek εὖ (eû, “good, true”) + θηρίον (thēríon, “beast”).

Eutheria

1. A taxonomic infraclass within the class Mammalia – all mammals more closely related to placentals like rodents and humans than to marsupials.

• almost synonymous with Placentalia

• (infraclass): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria - subclass[1]

• (infraclass): Xenarthra (anteaters, sloths and armadillos), Afrotheria (elephants, aardvarks etc); Boreoeutheria: Laurasiatheria (mammals descended from those of the supercontinent of Laurasia), Euarchontoglires (rodents, primates etc) - superorders

or

• (infraclass): Afrosoricida, Artiodactyla, Carnivora, Cetacea, Chiroptera, Cingulata, Dermoptera, Erinaceomorpha, Hyracoidea, Lagomorpha, Macroscelidea, Perissodactyla, Pholidota, Pilosa, Primates, Proboscidea, Rodentia, Scandentia, Sirenia, Soricomorpha, Tubulidentata - orders[1]

• Eutheria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Eutheria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Eutheria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons