In their 1997 " Classification of Mammals ", Malcolm McKenna and Susan Bell listed " Veratalpa " as a member of Placentalia of uncertain affinities.
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"' Trituberculata "'is an extinct group of animals existing in the fossil record from about 215 85 MYA . It contains the ancestors of Placentalia and Marsupialia; all modern mammals except Monotremata are descended from trituberculates.
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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.
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Euarchontoglires is now recognized as one of the four major subclades within the clade Eutheria ( i . e ., placentalia ( placental mammals ) ), and it is usually discussed without a taxonomic rank but has been regarded as a cohort, magnorder, or superorder.
