<==o PERISSODACTYLA Owen, 1848 sensu McKenna and Bell, 1997 [Mesaxonia, Perissodactylomorpha] (kavioeläimet)
|-- HIPPOMORPHA (hevosmaiset kavioeläimet)
`--o CERATOMORPHA Wood, 1937 [Meropomorpha] (sarvikuonomaiset kavioeläimet)
|--o †SELENIDA
| |-- †BRONTOTHEROIDEA
| `-- †CHALICOTHEROIDEA
`--o TAPIROMORPHA (tapiirimaiset kavioeläimet)
|-- RHINOCEROTOIDEA (sarvikuononsukuiset kavioeläimet)
`--+-- †Heptodon calciculus
`--o TAPIROIDEA (tapiirinsukuiset kavioeläimet)
|-- †Isectolophidae
`--+-- †Helaletidae [paraphyletic?]
|-- †Lophiodontidae
|-- †Deperetellidae [incl. Rhodopagidae]
|-- †Lophialetidae [incl. Eoletidae]
`-- Tapiridae Burnett, 1830 (tapiirit)
Reference(s):
Froelich, D. J., 1999: Phylogenetic systematics of basal perissodactyls.
–Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 19, #1, pp. 140 - 159
Holbrook, L. T., 2001: Comparative osteology of early Tertiary tapiromorphs
(Mammalia; Perissodactyla)
–Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society: Vol. 132, #1, pp. 1-54
McKenna, M. C. & Bell, S. K., eds., 1997:
Classification of mammals; above the species level.
--Columbia University Press, New York, 1997.
Prothero, D. R. & Schoch, R. M. 1989: Classification of the Perissodactyla. 530-537.
In Prothero, D. R. & Schoch, R. M. 1989: The evolution of perissodactyls.
--Oxford University Press., New York. 1989.