Boreoeutheria
| Boreoeutheria Temporal range: Late Cretaceous to present | |
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| From top to right: European hedgehog, Lyle's flying fox, tiger, Indian pangolin, red deer and white rhino. Representing the orders: Eulipotyphla, Chiroptera, Carnivora, Pholidota, Artiodactyla and Perissodactyla, comprising Laurasiatheria. | |
| From top to right: Desmarest's hutia, Sunda colugo, brown rat, European hare, lar gibbon, human playing with a rabbit, ring-tailed lemur, and a common treeshrew. Representing the orders: Dermoptera, Rodentia, Primates, Lagomorpha, and Scandentia, comprising Euarchontoglires. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Clade: | Eutheria |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Magnorder: | Boreoeutheria Springer & de Jong, 2001; Murphy et al., 2001 |
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Boreoeutheria (/boʊˌriːoʊjuːˈθɛriə/, "northern eutherians") is a magnorder of placental mammals that groups together superorders Euarchontoglires and Laurasiatheria. The clade includes groups as diverse as giraffes, pigs, zebras, rhinos, dogs, cats, rabbits, mice, squirrels, bats, whales, dolphins, lemurs, and simians (monkeys and apes).
With a few exceptions, male boreoeutherians have a scrotum, an ancestral feature of the clade. The sub-clade Scrotifera was named after this feature.