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The PEDIGREE of
Broad Clade of Archonta (Bat-Ape) and Ungulata (Rat-Beast-Whale)

    External page: ``Tree of Life'' -- a beautiful site.
 
    Note: This diagram of placental mammals is based roughly on traditional McKenna model. Recent research suggests instead a division between mammals of the supercontinents of Gondwana (``G'') and Laurasia (``L'' and ``P''). For each Order, I show to which of these three Subcohorts it is assigned.
    (This clading is also shown here -- just follow the alternate lines marked ``Biochem.'')

Born:  abt. 100 M BC

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 Children:         Clade of Ungulates and Glires   ;   Clade [McKenna] Archonta (Chiroptera-Dermoptera-Primata)

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													/	-- Branch Bilateria   +							====> [ 45]
												/	-- Grade (Infrakingdom) of Coelomates
											/	-- Superphylum of Deuterostomes
										/	-- Phylum Chordata  (540 M BC - ?)
									/	-- Subphylum Vertebrata
								/	-- Proto-Class of Jawed Fish  (450 M BC)
							/	-- Proto-Class Tetrapoda (Legged Fish)
						/	-- Proto-Class Amniota (Terrestrial Vertebrates)
					/	-- Proto-Class of Warm-blooded Vertebrates
				/	-- Class of Mammals  (200? M BC - ?)
			/	-- Subclass of Therial Mammals  (150? M BC - ?)
		/	-- Infraclass [McKenna] of Placental Mammals
	/	-- Cohort of Epitherials  (110? M BC - ?)
/	-- Subcohort [McKenna] Carnivora-Archonta-Ungulata
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- Broad Clade of Archonta (Bat-Ape) and Ungulata (Rat-Beast-Whale)

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  (poss.) ``3-Great Grandchildren:''        Clade [McKenna] of Cetacea-MacroProboscidea   ;   Order (L) Perissodactyla   ;   Suborder Ruminantia   ;   Infraorder of Apes
  (poss.) ``9-Great Grandchild:''        Ardepithecus ramidus
 

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