Placentalia
Translingual
Etymology
From New Latin placentālis (“placental”), from placenta.
Proper noun
Placentalia
- The clade originating with the last common ancestor of extant eutherians
- (archaic) A taxonomic subclass within the class Mammalia.
- A taxonomic infraclass within the subclass Theria.[1]
Synonyms
- (clade): Eutheria
Hypernyms
- (clade): Tetrapoda - superclass; Amniota, Synapsida - clade; Pelycosauria - informal group; Eupelycosauria - clade; Therapsida - order; Theriodontia, Cynodontia, Mammaliaformes - clades; Mammalia - class; Trechnotheria - subclass; Zatheria - infraclass; Theria - supercohort
- (infraclass): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria - subclass
Hyponyms
- Afrotheria, Euarchontoglires, Laurasiatheria, †Meridiungulata, Xenarthra - superorders
References
Eutheria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Placentalia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category:Placentalia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248
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