Zatheria
Cladotheria (also called Zatheria) is a clade of mammals—that means a group of mammals who all evolved from the same ancient
| Zatheira | |
|---|---|
| |
| A capybara | |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Clade: | Cladotheria |
| Clade: | Prototribosphenida |
| Clade: | Zatheria |
| Synonyms | |
|
Cladotheira | |
creature. Cladotheria has marsupials, placentals, and some kinds of extinct animals like dryolestoids, amphitheriids and peramurids. This clade was named in 1975 by Malcolm McKenna. In 2002, scientists called it a node-based taxon that had "the common ancestor of dryolestids and living therians, plus all its descendants". A different definition was written in 2013. Then scientists said that Cladotheria has all groups of mammals that are more like a house mouse than they are like the animal Spalacotherium tricuspidens.
