Accroding to...

Placentalia after Madsen et al., 2001

 
<==o PLACENTARIA [Eutheria] (istukkanisäkkäät)
   |--o ATLANTOGENATA (gondwananistukkanisäkkäät)
   |  |-- XENARTHRA
   |  `--+?- †MERIDIUNGULATA
   |     `--o AFROTHERIA
   |        |--+-- TUBULIDENTATA (aardwarks)
   |        |  `--+-- AFROSORICIDA (golden mole, tenrecs)
   |        |     `--+-- †Microhyus
   |        |        `-- MACROSCELIDEA
   |        `--o PAENUNGULATA
   |           |-- HYRACOIDEA (hyraxies)
   |           `--o TETHYTHERIA
   |              |-- SIRENIA (sirenians, manatee)
   |              `--o BEHEMOTA
   |                 |?- †DESMOSTYLIA (desmosylians)
   |                 `-- PROBOSCIDEA (elephants)
   `--+--+-- SCANDENTIA (tree shrews)
      |  `--+-- DERMOPTERA
      |     `--+-- PRIMATES
      |        `--o GLIRES [Anagalida]
      |           |-- LAGOMORPHA
      |           `-- RODENTIA
      `--o LAURASIATHERIA [lauraasianistukkanisäkkäät]
         |?- EULIPOTYPHLA
         `--+--o FERAE 
            |  |-- PHOLIDOTA
            |  `-- CARNIVORA
            `--+-- CHIROPTERA
               `--+-- PERISSODACTYLA
                  `-- ARTIODACTYLA [Cetartiodactyla = incl. Cetacea]

Reference(s):

Madsen, O., Scally, M., Douady, C. J., Kao, D. J., DeBry, R. W., Adkins, R., Amrine, H. M., Stanhope, M. J., de Jong, W. W. & Springer, M. S., 2001: Parallel adaptive radiations in two major clades of placental mammals.
–Nature: Vol. 409, 1 February, pp. 610-614

Mouchaty, S. K., Gullberg, A., Janke, A. & Arnason, U., 2000: Phylogenetic position of the tanrecs (Mammalia: Tanrecidae) of Madagaskar based on analysis of the complete mitochondrial genome sequence of Echinops telfairi.
--Zoologica Scripta: Vol. 29, #4, pp. 307-317

Murphy, W. J., Elzirik, E., Johnson, W. E., Zhang, Y. P., Ryder, O. A. & O'Brien, S. J., 2001: Molecular phylogenetics and the origin of placental mammals.
–Nature: Vol. 409, 1 February, pp. 614-618

Waddell, P. J., Okada, N., & Hasegawa, M., 1999: Towards resolving the interordinal relationships of placental mammals.
--Systematic Biology: Vol. 48, #1, pp. 1-5

Tabuce, R., Coiffait, B., Coiffait, P.-E., Mahboubi, M. & Jaeger, J.-J., 2001: A new genus of Macroscelidea (Mammalia) from the Eocene of Algeria: A possible origin for elephant-shrews.
–Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 21, #3, pp. 535-546

 

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