Euarchontoglires

Euarchonta

Euarchontoglires. Euarchontoglires (synonymous with Supraprimates) is a clade (superorder) of mammals, the living members of which belong to one of the five following groups: rodents, lagomorphs, treeshrews, colugos and primates (including humans).

Evolutionary relationships[edit] The Euarchontoglires clade is based on DNA sequence analyses and retrotransposon presence/absence data, combining the Glires clade, which consists of Rodentia and Lagomorpha, with that of Euarchonta, a clade consisting of Scandentia, Primates (which includes humans) and Dermoptera. [citation needed] So far, few if any anatomical features supporting Euarchontoglires have been recognized, but neither is there strong evidence from anatomy to support alternative hypotheses.

Euarchontoglires is now recognized as one of the four major groups within Eutheria (containing placental mammals).[1] These four clades are usually discussed without a Linnaean rank, but have been assigned the rank of cohort or magnorder, and superorder.