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| Euarchontans Temporal range: Late Cretaceous - Recent |
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| Euarchonts: upper left: Plesiadapis, upper right: Northern Treeshrew, lower left: Sunda Flying Lemur and lower right: Yellow Baboon | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Subclass: | Theriiformes |
| Infraclass: | Eutheria |
| (unranked): | subcohort Exafroplacentalia (Notolegia) |
| Magnorder: | Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder: | Euarchontoglires |
| (unranked): | Euarchonta |
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The Euarchonta are a grandorder of mammals containing four orders: the Dermoptera or colugos, the Scandentia or treeshrews, the extinct Plesiadapiformes, and the Primates.
Euarchonta and Glires together form the Euarchontoglires, one of the four Eutherian clades.
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