Boreoeutheria

Boreoeutheria (also Boreotheria) are mammals that are the third superorder of placental mammals. The other two groups are Afrotheria and Xenarthra.

Boreoeutheria
Temporal range: Paleocene–Recent
Euarchontoglires and Laurasiatheria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Clade: Eutheria
Infraclass: Placentalia
Magnorder: Boreoeutheria
Springer & de Jong, 2001; Murphy et al., 2001
Superorders
Synonyms
  • Boreoplacentalia (Arnason, 2008)
  • Boreotheria (Waddell, 2001)

They evolved on the northern supercontinent Laurasia after it split from Gondwana when Pangaea broke up.

Lentivirus, or Retrovirus can affect these mammals, as well as humans which are part of this magnorder.

References

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