Overview
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Taxonomy
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The Order Dryolestida is a member of the Mirorder Eparctocyona. Here is the complete "parentage" of Dryolestida:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Branch: Deuterostomia
Grobben, 1908 - Deuterostomes
- Infrakingdom: Chordonia
(Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum: Chordata
Bateson, 1885 - Chordates
- Subphylum: Vertebrata
Cuvier, 1812 - Vertebrates
- Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
auct. - Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass: Tetrapoda
Goodrich, 1930 - Tetrapods
- Class: Mammalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Mammals
- Subclass: Theriiformes
(Rowe, 1988) M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
- Infraclass: Holotheria
(Wible et al., 1995) M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
- Superlegion: Trechnotheria
McKenna, 1975
- Legion: Cladotheria
McKenna, 1975
- Sublegion: Dryolestoidea
(Butler, 1939) Mckenna, 1975
- Infralegion: Tribosphenida
(Mckenna, 1975) Mckenna & Bell, 1997:vii,48
- Supercohort: Theria
(Parker & Haswell, 1897) Mckenna & Bell, 1997:viii,49 - a genus of Click Beetles (Elateridae)
- Cohort: Placentalia
(Owen, 1837) Mckenna & Bell, 1997:viii,80 - Placentals
- Superorder: Preptotheria
(Mckenna, 1975) Mckenna in Stucky & Mckenna in Benton, Ed., 1993:7
- Grandorder: Ungulata
(un-goo-LAH-tuh)
(Linnaeus, 1766) Mckenna, 1975:41
- Mirorder: Eparctocyona
Mckenna, 1975
- Order: Dryolestida (Prothero, 1981) Mckenna, in Stucky & Mckenna, in Benton, Ed., 1993
- Mirorder: Eparctocyona
Mckenna, 1975
- Grandorder: Ungulata
(un-goo-LAH-tuh)
(Linnaeus, 1766) Mckenna, 1975:41
- Superorder: Preptotheria
(Mckenna, 1975) Mckenna in Stucky & Mckenna in Benton, Ed., 1993:7
- Cohort: Placentalia
(Owen, 1837) Mckenna & Bell, 1997:viii,80 - Placentals
- Supercohort: Theria
(Parker & Haswell, 1897) Mckenna & Bell, 1997:viii,49 - a genus of Click Beetles (Elateridae)
- Infralegion: Tribosphenida
(Mckenna, 1975) Mckenna & Bell, 1997:vii,48
- Sublegion: Dryolestoidea
(Butler, 1939) Mckenna, 1975
- Legion: Cladotheria
McKenna, 1975
- Superlegion: Trechnotheria
McKenna, 1975
- Infraclass: Holotheria
(Wible et al., 1995) M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
- Subclass: Theriiformes
(Rowe, 1988) M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997
- Class: Mammalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Mammals
- Superclass: Tetrapoda
Goodrich, 1930 - Tetrapods
- Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
auct. - Jawed Vertebrates
- Subphylum: Vertebrata
Cuvier, 1812 - Vertebrates
- Phylum: Chordata
Bateson, 1885 - Chordates
- Infrakingdom: Chordonia
(Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Branch: Deuterostomia
Grobben, 1908 - Deuterostomes
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
The Order Dryolestida is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Family (5): Brandoniidae · Donodontidae · Dryolestidae · Mesungulatidae · Reigitheriidae
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 0 species and subspecies in the Order Dryolestida.
Families
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Brandoniidae
Donodontidae
Donodon is an extinct genus of mammal from the Early Cretaceous (?Berriasian) S?quence B des Couches Rouges of Talssint, Morocco. It is the only member of the family Donodontidae. It differs from dryolestids in having upper molars that are not compressed mesiodistally. [more]
Dryolestidae
Mesungulatidae
Reigitheriidae
More info about the Family Reigitheriidae may be found here.
Sources
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