Afrotheria (/æfroʊˈθɪəriə/ from Latin Afro- "of Africa" + theria "wild beast") is a superorder of mammals, the living members of which belong to groups...

subdivisions or lineages of placental mammals: Boreoeutheria, Xenarthra, and Afrotheria. All of these diverged from common ancestors. 2022 studies of Bertrand...

languages of Africa, and in 1998, they were classified into the new clade Afrotheria. They are widely distributed across the southern part of Africa, and although...

ancestry of these animals, which are classified together in the clade Afrotheria, was not recognized until the late 1990s. Continuing work on the molecular...

placental mammals containing the cohorts or superorders Xenarthra and Afrotheria. These groups originated and radiated in the South American and African...

that Paenungulata (or at least its extant members) is part of the cohort Afrotheria, an ancient assemblage of mainly African mammals of great diversity. The...

sirens of Greek mythology. Sirenians are classified within the cohort Afrotheria in the clade Paenungulata, alongside Proboscidea (elephants), Hyracoidea...

sister clade to Afrotheria, 2) a sister clade to all placentals except Afrotheria, or 3) a trichotomy (three-way split): Afrotheria, Xenarthra, and everything...

Laurasiatheria while Paenungulata has been reclassified to a distant clade Afrotheria. Living ungulates are divided into two orders: Perissodactyla including...

elsewhere within Laurasiatheria, within Afrotheria, and as stem-group atlantogenatans. A position within Afrotheria has been argued to be unlikely on biogeographic...

T40592A97188634.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021. "Tenrecs in Madagascar". afrotheria.net. IUCN Afrotheria Specialist Group. Dollfus, Robert-Ph.; Golvan, Yves-J. (1963)...

which were also traditionally regarded as ungulates. If the clade of Afrotheria is genuine, then the Afroinsectiphilia are the closest relatives of the...

Afroinsectiphilia, with them forming the clade Afrotheria. There has been also some morphological data to support Afrotheria, though the paleontological record to...

hyraxes, with which they share the clade Paenungulata within the superorder Afrotheria. Elephants and sirenians are further grouped in the clade Tethytheria...

molecular studies reveal three major groups or lineages of placental mammals—Afrotheria, Xenarthra and Boreoeutheria—which diverged in the Cretaceous. The relationships...

molecular studies reveal three major groups or lineages of placental mammals, Afrotheria, Xenarthra, and Boreotheria. which diverged from early common ancestors...

Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Superorder: Afrotheria Clade: Paenungulatomorpha Grandorder: Paenungulata Order: Hyracoidea Huxley...

This is a list of the native wild mammal species recorded in South America. South America's terrestrial mammals fall into three distinct groups: "old-timers"...

Jansen Van Vuuren, B. (October 2008). "A new species of elephant-shrew (Afrotheria: Macroselidea: Elephantulus) from South Africa". Journal of Mammalogy...

The Capistrano Formation is a geologic formation in coastal southern Orange County, California. It preserves fossils dating back to the late Miocene to...

mammals in the Afrotheria. Tenrecs and golden moles are sometimes considered part of the Afroinsectiphilia, a clade within Afrotheria. The generally accepted...

a shorter fibula relative to the tibia. Epitheria like Xenarthra and Afrotheria originated after the K-Pg boundary 66 million years ago, with the placental...

elephants, and their extinct relatives, these animals form the superorder Afrotheria. Studies of the brain have shown the similarities with Condylarthra. Based...

Utah Avilla, Leonardo S.; Mothé, Dimila (2021). "Out of Africa: A New Afrotheria Lineage Rises From Extinct South American Mammals". Frontiers in Ecology...

Structure Suggests Increasing Aquatic Adaptations in Desmostylia (Mammalia, Afrotheria)". PLOS ONE. 8 (4): e59146. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...859146H. doi:10.1371/journal...

non-menstruating mammals. Each color indicates a convergent evolutionary event: green, Primates; blue, Chiroptera; orange, Afrotheria; yellow, Rodentia....

t e Extant Hyracoidea (Hyraxes) species Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Class Mammalia Infraclass Eutheria Superorder Afrotheria Procaviidae Category...

Boreoeutheria (comprising Laurasiatheria and Euarchontoglires), thus making Afrotheria a primitive group of placental mammals (the group name roughly means "those...

common ancestry. Elephants and hyraxes are now considered to belong to Afrotheria, so are not closely related to the perissodactyls. These in turn are in...

while elephants, hyraxes, manatees and dugongs are classified in clade Afrotheria. Tenney, Sanborn (1867). Natural History: A Manual of Zoölogy for Schools...