Mammalian superorders

Abstract

The superordinal level can be used to great advantage in the taxonomy of mammals and other groups. Of the two cohorts of placental mammals, the Unguiculata is divided into six superorders: Archonta (Gregory's Archonta plus Lipotyphla), Glires, Ferae (including Delta‐theridia and Carnivora), Paratheria (Edentata and Pholidota), Ganodonta, and an unnamed group for the Lagomorpha plus Anagalida. The cohort Ungulata is divided much as in Simpson (1945), with an additional superorder (Mutica) for the whales and with a superorder Amblypoda, separate from the Paenungulata, and corresponding to Romer's (1966) order of that name.