Euarchonta
Appearance
Euarchontans Temporal range: Late Cretaceous - Recent
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Euarchonts: upper left: Plesiadapis, upper right: Northern Treeshrew, lower left: Sunda Flying Lemur and lower right: Yellow Baboon | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Superorder: | Euarchontoglires |
Grandorder: | Euarchonta |
Orders | |
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The Euarchonta are a grandorder of mammals containing four orders: the Dermoptera or colugos, the Scandentia or treeshrews, the extinct Plesiadapiformes, and the Primates.
Euarchonta and Glires together form the Euarchontoglires, one of the four Eutherian clades.
Euarchontoglires |
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