Paratheria (mammals)
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paratheria-mammals-282-12679329
title:
Paratheria (mammals)
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Paratheria is an obsolete term for a taxonomic group including the xenarthran mammals and various groups thought to be related to them. It was proposed by Oldfield Thomas in 1887 to set apart the sloths, anteaters, armadillos, and pangolins, usually classified as placentals, from both marsupial and placental mammals, an arrangement that received little support from other workers. When teeth of the extinct gondwanathere mammals were first discovered in Argentina in the 1980s, they were thought t
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description:
Former taxonomic group including xenarthran and similar mammals
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paratheria_(mammals)
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2023-12-02T22:59:51Z
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