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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › EutheriaEutheria - Wikipedia

    Eutheria (from Greek εὐ-, eú- 'good, right' and θηρίον, thēríon 'beast'; lit. 'true beasts'), also called Pan-Placentalia, is the clade consisting of placental mammals and all therian mammals that are more closely related to placentals than to marsupials.

  2. Eutheria is the taxonomical name for the main group of living mammals. [2] This taxon contains the placental mammals, of which humans are one species. Eutheria was introduced by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1880. Members of Eutheria are now found on all continents and in all oceans.

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › TheriaTheria - Wikipedia

    Theria includes the eutherians (including the placental mammals) and the metatherians (including the marsupials) but excludes the egg-laying monotremes and various extinct mammals evolving prior to the common ancestor of placentals and marsupials.

  4. In some taxonomic classification schemes, Eutheria is the term used for one of the three major branches or clades of mammals that includes extant members, the other two groups being the marsupials and the monotremes. Eutheria is often presented as an infraclass within the subclass Theria within the class Mammalia, with the other Infraclass ...

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  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › MetatheriaMetatheria - Wikipedia

    Metatheria is a mammalian clade that includes all mammals more closely related to marsupials than to placentals. First proposed by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1880, it is a more inclusive group than the marsupials; it contains all marsupials as well as many extinct non-marsupial relatives.

  6. www.encyclopedia.com › zoology-general › eutheriaEutheria - Encyclopedia.com

    May 21, 2018 · Eutheria (class Mammalia, subclass Theria) The infraclass that includes all of the placental mammals, and which probably arose during the Cretaceous. The embryo is retained in the uterus, nourished by means of an allantoic placenta, and born in an advanced stage of development.

  7. Eutheria (/juːˈθɪəriə/; from Greek εὐ-, eu- "good" or "right" and θηρίον, thēríon "beast" hence "true beasts") is one of two mammalian clades with extant members that diverged in the Early Cretaceous or perhaps the Late Jurassic.

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