Shuotheriidae
| Shuotheriidae Temporal range:
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| Life restoration of Pseudotribos | |
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| Lower jaw of Shuotherium dongi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | Cynodontia |
| Clade: | Mammaliaformes |
| Family: | †Shuotheriidae Chow and Rich, 1982 |
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Shuotheriidae is a small family of Jurassic mammals whose remains are found in China, England and possibly Russia. They have been proposed to be close relatives of Australosphenida, the group that contains living monotremes, together forming the clade Yinotheria. However, some studies suggest shuotheres are closer to therians than to monotremes.[2][3] The Shuotheriidae have been proposed as the sister group of the Gondwanian clade Henosferida and the Monotremata, which are the monotremes.[4]
References
- ^ a b Wang, Y.-Q. and Li, C.-K. 2016. Reconsideration of the systematic position of the Middle Jurassic mammaliaforms Itatodon and Paritatodon. Palaeontologia Polonica 67, 249–256.
- ^ Rougier, Guillermo W.; Martinelli, Agustín G.; Forasiepi, Analía M.; Novacek, Michael J., New Jurassic mammals from Patagonia, Argentina : a reappraisal of australosphenidan morphology and interrelationships ; American Museum Novitates, no. 3566, 2007
- ^ Tom Rich, Patricia Vickers Rich, Palaeobiogeography of Mesozoic Mammals – Revisited, Article · January 2012 doi:10.1007/978-90-481-3428-1_32
- ^ Averianov, A. O.; Lopatin, A. V. (July 2014). "On the phylogenetic position of monotremes (Mammalia, Monotremata)". Paleontological Journal. 48 (4): 426–446. doi:10.1134/s0031030114040042. ISSN 0031-0301. S2CID 84039223 – via Scientific Index.
Further reading
- Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, Richard L. Cifelli, and Zhe-Xi Luo, Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs: Origins, Evolution, and Structure (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), 214–215.
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