Theriiformes is a clade of
mammal
Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fur ...
s. The term was coined by Timothy B. Rowe in his doctoral
dissertation,
and is defined as the clade formed by the most recent common ancestor of
multituberculates and
theria
Theria (; Greek: , wild beast) is a subclass of mammals amongst the Theriiformes. Theria includes the eutherians (including the placental mammals) and the metatherians (including the marsupials) but excludes the egg-laying monotremes.
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ns, and all its descendants.
The cladogram below follows Luo ''et al.'' (2016):
References
Taxa named by Timothy B. Rowe
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