Euarchontoglires Fossil range: Late Cretaceous–recent PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Ring-tailed Lemurs (Lemur catta)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Class:	Mammalia
Subclass:	Theriiformes
Infraclass:	Eutheria
(unranked):	subcohort Exafroplacentalia (Notolegia)
Superorder:	Euarchontoglires
Orders
Glires Anagaloidea† Rodentia Lagomorpha Euarchonta Dermoptera Scandentia Primates

Euarchontoglires (synonymous with Supraprimates) is a clade of mammals, the living members of which include rodents and primates (including humans).

[edit] Evolutionary relationships

The Euarchontoglires clade is based on DNA sequence analyses and retrotransposon presence/absence data, combining the Glires clade, which consists of Rodentia and Lagomorpha, with that of Euarchonta, a clade consisting of Scandentia, Primates (which includes humans) and Dermoptera.

Euarchontoglires is now recognized as one of four major groups within Eutheria (containing placental mammals).^[1] These four clades are ususally discussed without a Linnaean rank, but has been assigned the rank of cohort or magnorder, and superorder. Relations within the four cohorts, Euarchontoglires, Xenarthra, Laurasiatheria, and Afrotheria, and the identity of the placental root, remain somewhat controversial.^[2]

Euarchontoglires probably split from the Laurasiatheria sister group about 85 to 95 million years ago during the Cretaceous, developing in the Laurasian island group which would later become Europe. This hypothesis is supported by fossil as well as molecular evidence. The clade of Euarchontoglires and Laurasiatheria is recognized as Boreoeutheria.

[edit] Organization

The hypothesized relationship among the Euarchontoglires is as follows:

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Waddell PJ, Kishino H, Ota R. 2001. A phylogenetic foundation for comparative mammalian genomics. Genome Inform Ser Workshop Genome Inform 12: 141–154
• Placental mammal diversification and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary
• Wildman D.E.; Chen C.; Erez O.; Grossman L.I.; Goodman M.; Romero R. 2006. Evolution of the mammalian placenta revealed by phylogenetic analysis. PNAS 103 (9): 3203–3208
• Nikolaev, S., Montoya-Burgos, J.I., Margulies, E.H., Rougemont, J., Nyffeler, B., Antonarakis, S.E. 2007. Early history of mammals is elucidated with the ENCODE multiple species sequencing data. PLoS Genet. 3:e2, doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.0030002.
• Gennady Churakov, Jan Ole Kriegs, Robert Baertsch, Anja Zemann, Jürgen Brosius, Jürgen Schmitz. 2008. Mosaic retroposon insertion patterns in placental mammals
• Goloboff, P.A.; Catalano, S.A.; Mirande, J.M.; Szumik, C.A.; Arias, J.S.; Källersjö, M & Farris, J.S. 2009. Phylogenetic analysis of 73 060 taxa corroborates major eukaryotic groups. Cladistics 25 (3): 211–230

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