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- Prototheria abstract "Prototheria (/ˌproʊtəˈθɪəriə, -toʊ-/; from Greek πρώτος, prōtos, first, + θήρ, thēr, wild animal) is a taxonomic group, or taxon, to which the order Monotremata belongs. It is conventionally ranked as a subclass within the mammals; see Yinotheria § History of classification.Most of the animals in this group are extinct. The egg-laying monotremes are known from fossils of the Cretaceous and Cenozoic periods; they are represented today by the platypus and several species of echidna. The names Prototheria, Metatheria and Eutheria (meaning \"first beasts\", \"changed beasts\", and \"true beasts\", respectively) refer to the three mammalian groupings which have living representatives. Each of the three may be defined as a total clade containing a living crown-group (respectively the Monotremata, Marsupialia and Placentalia) plus any fossil species which are more closely related to that crown-group than to any other living animals.The threefold division of living mammals into monotremes, marsupials and placentals was already well established when Thomas Huxley proposed the names Metatheria and Eutheria to incorporate the two latter groups in 1880. Initially treated as subclasses, Metatheria and Eutheria are by convention now grouped as infraclasses of the subclass Theria, and in more recent proposals have been demoted further (to cohorts or even magnorders), as cladistic reappraisals of the relationships between living and fossil mammals have suggested that the Theria itself should be reduced in rank.Prototheria, on the other hand, was generally recognised as a subclass until quite recently, on the basis of an hypothesis which defined the group by two supposed synapomorphies: (1) formation of the side wall of the braincase from a bone called the anterior lamina, contrasting with the alisphenoid in therians; and (2) a linear alignment of molar cusps, contrasting with a triangular arrangement in therians. These characters appeared to unite monotremes with a range of Mesozoic fossil orders (Morganucodonta, Triconodonta, Docodonta and Multituberculata) in a broader clade for which the name Prototheria was retained, and of which monotremes were thought to be only the last surviving branch (Benton 2005: 300, 306).The evidence which was held to support this grouping is now universally discounted. In the first place, examination of embryos has revealed that the development of the braincase wall is essentially identical in therians and in 'prototherians': the anterior lamina simply fuses with the alisphenoid in therians, and therefore the 'prototherian' condition of the braincase wall is primitive for all mammals while the therian condition can be derived from it. Additionally, the linear alignment of molar cusps is also primitive for all mammals. Therefore, neither of these states can supply a uniquely shared derived character which would support a 'prototherian' grouping of orders in contradistinction to Theria (Kemp 1983). In a further reappraisal, the molars of embryonic and fossil monotremes (living monotreme adults are toothless) appear to demonstrate an ancestral pattern of cusps which is similar to the triangular arrangement observed in therians. Some peculiarities of this dentition support an alternative grouping of monotremes with certain recently discovered fossil forms into a proposed new clade known as the Australosphenida, and also suggest that the triangular array of cusps may have evolved independently in australosphenidans and therians (Luo et al. 2001, 2002).The Australosphenida hypothesis remains controversial, and some taxonomists (e.g. McKenna & Bell 1997) prefer to maintain the name Prototheria as a fitting contrast to the other group of living mammals, the Theria. In theory, the Prototheria is taxonomically redundant, since Monotremata is currently the only order which can still be confidently included, but its retention might be justified if new fossil evidence, or a re-examination of known fossils, enables extinct relatives of the monotremes to be identified and placed within a wider grouping.".
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- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Australosphenida.
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Category:Mammal_taxonomy.
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Cenozoic.
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Clade.
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Cladistics.
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Class_(biology).
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Cretaceous.
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Crown_group.
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Docodonta.
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Echidna.
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Eutheria.
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Eutriconodonta.
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Greater_wing_of_sphenoid_bone.
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Mammal.
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Marsupial.
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Mesozoic.
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Metatheria.
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Michael_Benton.
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Monotreme.
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Morganucodon.
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Multituberculata.
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Order_(biology).
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Placentalia.
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Platypus.
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Short-beaked_echidna.
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Synapomorphy.
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Taxon.
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Taxonomy_(biology).
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Theodore_Gill.
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Theria.
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Thomas_Henry_Huxley.
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLink Wiktionary:cohort.
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLinkText "Prototheria".
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLinkText "prototheria".
- Prototheria wikiPageWikiLinkText "prototherian".
- Prototheria authority "Gill, 1872".
- Prototheria fossilRange "Early Cretaceous - Recent".
- Prototheria imageCaption Short-beaked_echidna.
- Prototheria imageWidth "200".
- Prototheria subdivision "* Monotremata".
- Prototheria subdivisionRanks Order_(biology).
- Prototheria taxon "Prototheria".
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- Prototheria subject Category:Mammal_taxonomy.
- Prototheria hypernym Group.
- Prototheria type Band.
- Prototheria type Mammal.
- Prototheria type Mammal.
- Prototheria comment "Prototheria (/ˌproʊtəˈθɪəriə, -toʊ-/; from Greek πρώτος, prōtos, first, + θήρ, thēr, wild animal) is a taxonomic group, or taxon, to which the order Monotremata belongs. It is conventionally ranked as a subclass within the mammals; see Yinotheria § History of classification.Most of the animals in this group are extinct. The egg-laying monotremes are known from fossils of the Cretaceous and Cenozoic periods; they are represented today by the platypus and several species of echidna.".
- Prototheria label "Prototheria".
- Prototheria sameAs m.01tfdh.
- Prototheria wasDerivedFrom Prototheria?oldid=701081964.
- Prototheria depiction Ameisenigel.jpg.
- Prototheria isPrimaryTopicOf Prototheria.