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 or ...
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
multituberculate
Multituberculata (commonly known as multituberculates, named for the multiple tubercles of their teeth) is an extinct order of rodent-like mammals with a fossil record spanning over 130 million years. They first appeared in the Middle Jurassic, a ...
s 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.
Ch ...
ns, and all its descendants.
The cladogram below follows Luo ''et al.'' (2016):
References
Taxa named by Timothy B. Rowe
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