Phylogeography of the dusky shrew, Sorex monticolus ( Insectivora, Soricidae ) : Insight into deep and shallow history in northwestern North America . " Molecular Ecology Mol Ecol, " 1227-1240.
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Order Primates was established by Carl Linnaeus in 1758, in the Chiroptera, Insectivora and Carnivora ), Tertiates ( or Glires ) and Quaternates ( including Gravigrada, Pachydermata and Ruminantia ), but these new taxa were not accepted.
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Historically, the Paenungulata had been linked to other ungulates; the golden mole, tenrecs, and elephant shrews with the traditional ( and polyphyletic ) Insectivora; and the aardvarks with the pangolins and the xenarthrans within the invalid taxon Edentata.
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The shape of the tarsus suggests a bird that hunts on the wing, and the mammalian fauna of the time suggests a diet of small-to medium-sized rodents and insectivora, which may have been supplemented with reptiles in open areas.
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:: I think Kainaw is referring to a view ( which AFAIK used to be the established one for most of 20th century, but not anymore ) that order Insectivora-now defunct-contained the " basal " placental mammals, least changed for the last 100 My.