Epitheria

Translingual

Etymology

epi- +‎ Theria

Proper noun

Epitheria

A taxonomic magnorder within the class Mammalia – a grouping of mammals diverging about 65 million years ago, including most common mammals.

Hypernyms

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

Hyponyms

(magnorder): Afrotheria, Laurasiatheria, Euarchontoglires - superorders

References

Epitheria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Epitheria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Epitheria 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. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521

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