Entity:

Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia

Phylogeny

Total clade

Ref: M.A. O'Leary et al., 2013: table S4 (p. 102: "Total clade of Carnivora, note that this is defined in relation to an extinct taxon, Creodonta").

First representative

†Protictis haydenianus (Cope, 1882)

Ref: M.A. O'Leary et al., 2013: table S2 (p. 86).

Current position

Ferae (Grandorder) Linnaeus, 1758

Ref: S. Tomiya et al., 2021: 44. [indirect]

Alternative positions

Ferae (Clade) Linnaeus 1758

Ref: M.A. O'Leary et al., 2013: table S4 (p. 102). [implicit]

Historical positions

*Mammalia* (Class) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: F. Solé et al., 2014: 2, fig. 9. [rough position]
*Ferae* (Clade) Linnaeus 1758	Ref: M.A. O'Leary et al., 2013: table S4 (p. 102). [implicit]

Number of Subtaxa

2024

Available in Systema Naturae 2000

1o;16f;128g;285s;1254ss;300v; ‡3g;4s;9ss;1v; †6f;420g;169s;11ss