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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA" title="لوراسيات – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="لوراسيات" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurasiatheria" title="Laurasiatheria – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Laurasiatheria" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrazioteril%C9%99r" title="Lavrazioterilər – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Lavrazioterilər" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%8F%D1%9E%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D1%8B%D1%8F%D1%82%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%96" title="Ляўразыятэрыі – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Ляўразыятэрыі" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurasiatheria" title="Laurasiatheria – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Laurasiatheria" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurasiateris" title="Laurasiateris – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Laurasiateris" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurasiatheria" title="Laurasiatheria – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Laurasiatheria" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurasiatheria" title="Laurasiatheria – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Laurasiatheria" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurasiatheria" title="Laurasiatheria – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Laurasiatheria" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurasiatheria" title="Laurasiatheria – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Laurasiatheria" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86" title="لوراسیاددان – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="لوراسیاددان" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurasiatheria" title="Laurasiatheria – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Laurasiatheria" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurasiaterios" title="Laurasiaterios – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Laurasiaterios" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A1%9C%EB%9D%BC%EC%8B%9C%EC%95%84%EC%83%81%EB%AA%A9" title="로라시아상목 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="로라시아상목" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurasiatheria" title="Laurasiatheria – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Laurasiatheria" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurasiatheria" title="Laurasiatheria – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Laurasiatheria" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurasiatheria" title="Laurasiatheria – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Laurasiatheria" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%90%D7%AA%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94" title="לאורסיאתריה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="לאורסיאתריה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurasiatheria" title="Laurasiatheria – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Laurasiatheria" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurasiatheria" title="Laurasiatheria – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Laurasiatheria" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laur%C4%81zijas_placent%C4%81%C4%BCi" title="Laurāzijas placentāļi – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Laurāzijas placentāļi" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurasiatheria" title="Laurasiatheria – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Laurasiatheria" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B8" title="Лавразиотерии – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Лавразиотерии" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mt mw-list-item"><a href="https://mt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurasiatheria" title="Laurasiatheria – Maltese" lang="mt" hreflang="mt" data-title="Laurasiatheria" data-language-autonym="Malti" data-language-local-name="Maltese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA" title="لوراسيات – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="لوراسيات" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurasiatheria" title="Laurasiatheria – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Laurasiatheria" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurasiatheria" title="Laurasiatheria – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Laurasiatheria" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A2%E7%8D%A3%E4%B8%8A%E7%9B%AE" title="ローラシア獣上目 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ローラシア獣上目" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurasiatheria" title="Laurasiatheria – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Laurasiatheria" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurasiatheria" title="Laurasiatheria – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Laurasiatheria" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurasiatheria" title="Laurasiatheria – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Laurasiatheria" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurasiatheria" title="Laurasiatheria – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Laurasiatheria" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurasiatheria" title="Laurasiatheria – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Laurasiatheria" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurasiatheria" title="Laurasiatheria – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Laurasiatheria" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B8" title="Лавразиатерии – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Лавразиатерии" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-stq mw-list-item"><a href="https://stq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurasiatheria" title="Laurasiatheria – Saterland Frisian" lang="stq" hreflang="stq" data-title="Laurasiatheria" data-language-autonym="Seeltersk" data-language-local-name="Saterland Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Seeltersk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurasiatheria" title="Laurasiatheria – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Laurasiatheria" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" 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width="220" height="213" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Laurasiatheria.jpg/330px-Laurasiatheria.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Laurasiatheria.jpg/440px-Laurasiatheria.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1547" /></a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align: center; font-size: 88%">From top to right: <a href="/wiki/European_hedgehog" title="European hedgehog">European hedgehog</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lyle%27s_flying_fox" title="Lyle&#39;s flying fox">Lyle's flying fox</a>, <a href="/wiki/Siberian_tiger" title="Siberian tiger">Siberian tiger</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indian_pangolin" title="Indian pangolin">Indian pangolin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Red_deer" title="Red deer">red deer</a> and <a href="/wiki/White_rhino" class="mw-redirect" title="White rhino">white rhino</a>. Representing the living orders: <a href="/wiki/Eulipotyphla" title="Eulipotyphla">Eulipotyphla</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chiroptera" class="mw-redirect" title="Chiroptera">Chiroptera</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carnivora" title="Carnivora">Carnivora</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pholidota" class="mw-redirect" title="Pholidota">Pholidota</a>, <a href="/wiki/Artiodactyla" class="mw-redirect" title="Artiodactyla">Artiodactyla</a> and <a href="/wiki/Perissodactyla" title="Perissodactyla">Perissodactyla</a>, comprising Laurasiatheria. </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="color:inherit; min-width:15em; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(235,235,210)"><a href="/wiki/Taxonomy_(biology)" title="Taxonomy (biology)">Scientific classification</a> <span class="plainlinks taxobox-edit-taxonomy skin-invert" style="font-size:smaller; float:right; padding-right:0.4em; margin-left:-3em;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Template:Taxonomy/Laurasiatheria" title="Edit this classification"><img alt="Edit this classification" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr.svg/23px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr.svg/30px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></span> </th></tr> <tr> <td>Domain: </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Eukaryote" title="Eukaryote">Eukaryota</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Kingdom: </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Animal" title="Animal">Animalia</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Phylum: </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chordate" title="Chordate">Chordata</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Class: </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mammal" title="Mammal">Mammalia</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Magnorder: </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Boreoeutheria" title="Boreoeutheria">Boreoeutheria</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Superorder: </td> <td><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Laurasiatheria</a><br /><small>Waddell et al., 1999<sup id="cite_ref-Waddell1999_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Waddell1999-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></small> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="color:inherit; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(235,235,210)">Subgroups </th></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align: left"> <ul><li><i>Clade</i>: <a href="/wiki/Scrotifera" title="Scrotifera">Scrotifera</a></li> <li>Order: <a href="/wiki/Eulipotyphla" title="Eulipotyphla">Eulipotyphla</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="color:inherit; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(235,235,210)"><a href="/wiki/Synonym_(taxonomy)" title="Synonym (taxonomy)">Synonyms</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align: left"> <ul><li>Eurasiatheria <span style="font-size:85%;">(Matsui &amp; Pyenson, 2023)</span><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li>Hoplopoda <span style="font-size:85%;">(Goldfuss, 1820)</span></li> <li>Laurasiaplacentalia <span style="font-size:85%;">(Arnason, 2008)</span><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> </td></tr> </tbody></table><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238732961">@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox.biota tr{background:transparent!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox.biota img{background:transparent}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox.biota tr{background:transparent!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox.biota img{background:white}}.mw-parser-output .infobox.biota .taxobox-edit-taxonomy img{background:transparent!important}body.skin-vector .mw-parser-output table.biota.infobox{margin-top:0.5em}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output table.biota.infobox tr.taxonrow td{padding:2px 10px}</style> <p><b>Laurasiatheria</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="&#39;l&#39; in &#39;lie&#39;">l</span><span title="/ɔː/: &#39;au&#39; in &#39;fraud&#39;">ɔː</span><span title="&#39;r&#39; in &#39;rye&#39;">r</span><span title="/ˌ/: secondary stress follows">ˌ</span><span title="/eɪ/: &#39;a&#39; in &#39;face&#39;">eɪ</span><span title="/ʒ/: &#39;s&#39; in &#39;pleasure&#39;">ʒ</span><span title="/ə/: &#39;a&#39; in &#39;about&#39;">ə</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/θ/: &#39;th&#39; in &#39;thigh&#39;">θ</span><span title="/ɪər/: &#39;ear&#39; in &#39;near&#39;">ɪər</span><span title="/i/: &#39;y&#39; in &#39;happy&#39;">i</span><span title="/ə/: &#39;a&#39; in &#39;about&#39;">ə</span></span>,<span class="wrap"> </span>-<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/θ/: &#39;th&#39; in &#39;thigh&#39;">θ</span><span title="/ɛr/: &#39;err&#39; in &#39;merry&#39;">ɛr</span><span title="/i/: &#39;y&#39; in &#39;happy&#39;">i</span><span title="/ə/: &#39;a&#39; in &#39;about&#39;">ə</span></span>/</a></span></span>; "Laurasian beasts") is a <a href="/wiki/Superorder" class="mw-redirect" title="Superorder">superorder</a> of <a href="/wiki/Placentalia" title="Placentalia">placental mammals</a> that groups together true insectivores (<a href="/wiki/Eulipotyphla" title="Eulipotyphla">eulipotyphlans</a>), bats (<a href="/wiki/Chiroptera" class="mw-redirect" title="Chiroptera">chiropterans</a>), <a href="/wiki/Carnivora" title="Carnivora">carnivorans</a>, pangolins (<a href="/wiki/Pholidota" class="mw-redirect" title="Pholidota">pholidotes</a>), even-toed ungulates (<a href="/wiki/Artiodactyla" class="mw-redirect" title="Artiodactyla">artiodactyls</a>), odd-toed ungulates (<a href="/wiki/Perissodactyla" title="Perissodactyla">perissodactyls</a>), and all their extinct relatives. From <a href="/wiki/Systematics" title="Systematics">systematics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Phylogenetic" class="mw-redirect" title="Phylogenetic">phylogenetic</a> perspectives, it is subdivided into order Eulipotyphla and clade <a href="/wiki/Scrotifera" title="Scrotifera">Scrotifera</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Waddell1999_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Waddell1999-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Groves2011_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Groves2011-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It is a sister group to <a href="/wiki/Euarchontoglires" title="Euarchontoglires">Euarchontoglires</a> with which it forms the magnorder <a href="/wiki/Boreoeutheria" title="Boreoeutheria">Boreoeutheria</a>. Laurasiatheria was discovered on the basis of the <a href="/wiki/Molecular_phylogenetics" title="Molecular phylogenetics">similar gene sequences</a> shared by the mammals belonging to it; no <a href="/wiki/Anatomy" title="Anatomy">anatomical</a> features have yet been found that unite the group, although a few have been suggested such as a small coracoid process, a simplified hindgut (reversed in artiodactyls), high intelligence, lack of grasping hands (though mimicry of grasping is observed in felines) and allantoic vessels that are large to moderate in size.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Laurasiatheria clade is based on DNA sequence analyses and <a href="/wiki/Retrotransposon" title="Retrotransposon">retrotransposon</a> <a href="/wiki/Retrotransposon_Marker" class="mw-redirect" title="Retrotransposon Marker">presence/absence data</a>. The superorder originated on the northern <a href="/wiki/Supercontinent" title="Supercontinent">supercontinent</a> of <a href="/wiki/Laurasia" title="Laurasia">Laurasia</a>, after it split from <a href="/wiki/Gondwana" title="Gondwana">Gondwana</a> when <a href="/wiki/Pangaea" title="Pangaea">Pangaea</a> broke up.<sup id="cite_ref-Waddell1999_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Waddell1999-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Its <a href="/wiki/Most_recent_common_ancestor" title="Most recent common ancestor">last common ancestor</a> is supposed to have lived between ca. 76 to 90 million years ago.<sup id="cite_ref-dosReis2012_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dosReis2012-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Zhou2012_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Zhou2012-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Laurasiatheria&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The name of this superorder derives from the theory that this group of mammals originated on the supercontinent of <a href="/wiki/Laurasia" title="Laurasia">Laurasia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Waddell1999_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Waddell1999-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In contrast, extinct primitive mammals called <a href="/wiki/Gondwanatheria" title="Gondwanatheria">Gondwanatheria</a> existed in the supercontinent of <a href="/wiki/Gondwana" title="Gondwana">Gondwana</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Classification_and_phylogeny">Classification and phylogeny</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Laurasiatheria&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: Classification and phylogeny"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="History_of_phylogeny">History of phylogeny</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Laurasiatheria&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: History of phylogeny"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:OrthoMaM_v10b_2019_116genera_circular_tree.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/OrthoMaM_v10b_2019_116genera_circular_tree.svg/220px-OrthoMaM_v10b_2019_116genera_circular_tree.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="195" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/OrthoMaM_v10b_2019_116genera_circular_tree.svg/330px-OrthoMaM_v10b_2019_116genera_circular_tree.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/OrthoMaM_v10b_2019_116genera_circular_tree.svg/440px-OrthoMaM_v10b_2019_116genera_circular_tree.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1674" data-file-height="1481" /></a><figcaption>Phylogenetic position of laurasiatherians (in green) among placentals in a genus-level molecular phylogeny of 116 extant mammals inferred from the gene tree information of 14,509 <a href="/wiki/Coding_region" title="Coding region">coding DNA sequences</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Scornavacca2019_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scornavacca2019-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The other major clades are colored: <a href="/wiki/Marsupials" class="mw-redirect" title="Marsupials">marsupials</a> (magenta), <a href="/wiki/Xenarthra" title="Xenarthra">xenarthrans</a> (orange), <a href="/wiki/Afrotheria" title="Afrotheria">afrotherians</a> (red), and <a href="/wiki/Euarchontoglires" title="Euarchontoglires">Euarchontoglires</a> (blue).</figcaption></figure> <p>Uncertainty still exists regarding the <a href="/wiki/Phylogenetic_tree" title="Phylogenetic tree">phylogenetic tree</a> for extant laurasiatherians, primarily due to disagreement about the placement of orders <a href="/wiki/Bat" title="Bat">Chiroptera</a> and <a href="/wiki/Perissodactyla" title="Perissodactyla">Perissodactyla</a>. Based on morphological grounds, bats (order Chiroptera) had long been classified in the superorder <a href="/wiki/Archonta" title="Archonta">Archonta</a> (e.g. along with <a href="/wiki/Primate" title="Primate">primates</a>, <a href="/wiki/Treeshrew" title="Treeshrew">treeshrews</a> and the gliding <a href="/wiki/Colugo" title="Colugo">colugos</a>) until genetic research instead showed their kinship with the other laurasiatheres.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The studies conflicted in terms of the exact placement of Chiroptera, however, with it being linked most closely to groups such as order Eulipotyphla in the clade <a href="/w/index.php?title=Insectiphillia&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Insectiphillia (page does not exist)">Insectiphillia</a>. Two 2013 studies retrieve that bats, <a href="/wiki/Pangolin" title="Pangolin">pangolins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carnivora" title="Carnivora">carnivorans</a> and <a href="/wiki/Euungulata" class="mw-redirect" title="Euungulata">euungulates</a> form a clade <a href="/wiki/Scrotifera" title="Scrotifera">Scrotifera</a>, indicating that Eulipotyphla might be the sister group to all other Laurasiatheria taxa.<sup id="cite_ref-Tsagkogeorga2013_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tsagkogeorga2013-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Morgan2013_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Morgan2013-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Laurasiatheria is also posited to include several extinct orders and superorders. At least some of these are considered <a href="/wiki/Wastebasket_taxon" title="Wastebasket taxon">wastebasket taxa</a>, historically lumping together several lineages based on superficial attributes and assumed relations to modern mammals. In some cases, these orders have turned out to either be <a href="/wiki/Paraphyletic" class="mw-redirect" title="Paraphyletic">paraphyletic</a> assemblages, or to be composed of mammals now understood not to be laurasiatheres at all. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Condylarthra" title="Condylarthra">Condylarthra</a> (paraphyletic in relation to true ungulates, possibly polyphyletic since some forms may be <a href="/wiki/Afrotheria" title="Afrotheria">afrotheres</a> or even non-<a href="/wiki/Placental" class="mw-redirect" title="Placental">placental</a> <a href="/wiki/Eutheria" title="Eutheria">eutherians</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Creodonta" title="Creodonta">Creodonta</a> (order closely related to Carnivora, now polyphyletic and split in two orders: <a href="/wiki/Hyaenodonta" title="Hyaenodonta">Hyaenodonta</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oxyaenidae" title="Oxyaenidae">Oxyaenodonta</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dinocerata" title="Dinocerata">Dinocerata</a> (natural order suggested to be closely related to ungulates)<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meridiungulata" class="mw-redirect" title="Meridiungulata">Meridiungulata</a> (Collagen sequences found in <i><a href="/wiki/Macrauchenia" title="Macrauchenia">Macrauchenia</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Toxodon" title="Toxodon">Toxodon</a></i> indicate this to be the <a href="/wiki/Sister_taxon" class="mw-redirect" title="Sister taxon">sister taxon</a> to perissodactyls, though in recent studies this clade was found to be polyphyletic)<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mesonychia" title="Mesonychia">Mesonychia</a> (natural clade, though several members, such as genus <i><a href="/wiki/Andrewsarchus" title="Andrewsarchus">Andrewsarchus</a></i>, are now thought to belong in other groups)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Taxonomy">Taxonomy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Laurasiatheria&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: Taxonomy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Superorder: <b>Laurasiatheria</b> <span style="font-size:85%;">(Waddell, 1999)</span> <ul><li><i>Clade</i>: <a href="/wiki/Scrotifera" title="Scrotifera">Scrotifera</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(Waddell, 1999)</span></li> <li>Order: <a href="/wiki/Eulipotyphla" title="Eulipotyphla">Eulipotyphla</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(Waddell, 1999)</span> (true insectivores)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Laurasiatheria&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mammal_classification" title="Mammal classification">Mammal classification</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boreoeutheria" title="Boreoeutheria">Boreoeutheria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gondwanatheria" title="Gondwanatheria">Gondwanatheria</a> – a clade of <a href="/wiki/Mammaliaformes" title="Mammaliaformes">Mammaliaformes</a> named after supercontinent of <a href="/wiki/Gondwana" title="Gondwana">Gondwana</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Laurasiatheria&amp;action=edit&amp;section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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