Euarchontoglires
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Euarchontoglires Fossil range: Late Cretaceous - Recent
Ring-tailed Lemurs (Lemur catta)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Class: Mammalia Infraclass: Eutheria Superorder: Euarchontoglires
Orders
Glires Rodentia Lagomorpha Euarchonta Dermoptera Scandentia Plesiadapiformes† Primates

The Euarchontoglires (synonymous with Supraprimates) are a mammalian superorder based on molecular genetic sequence analyses and retrotransposon presence/absence data, combining the Glires clade, which consists of the Rodentia and the Lagomorpha, with that of the Euarchonta, a clade consisting of the Scandentia, the Primates (which includes humans) and the Dermoptera.

The Euarchontoglires probably split from the Laurasiatheria sister group about 85 to 95 million years ago during the Cretaceous. This hypothesis is supported by fossil as well as molecular evidence.

The hypothesized relationship among the Euarchontoglires is as follows:

References

• William J. Murphy, Eduardo Eizirik, Mark S. Springer et al. (14 December 2001). "Resolution of the Early Placental Mammal Radiation Using Bayesian Phylogenetics". Science 294 (5550): 2348–2351. doi:10.1126/science.1067179. PMID 11743200. 
• Kriegs, Jan Ole, Gennady Churakov, Martin Kiefmann, Ursula Jordan, Juergen Brosius, Juergen Schmitz (2006). "Retroposed Elements as Archives for the Evolutionary History of Placental Mammals". PLoS Biol 4 (4): e91. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040091.  (pdf version)

External links

• Placental mammal diversification and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary