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Summary Of: AfrotheriaAfrotheria has been proposed based solely on... Genetic analyses since the 1990s have identified Afrotheria as one of four major groups within the infraclass... reconstruction proposes that the oldest split was between Afrotheria and the other three some 105 million years ago when the African continent was separated... The name Afrotheria was coined from two roots... Yet another reconstruction would place Xenarthra and Afrotheria together within the clade... Many members of Afrotheria appear to be at high risk of extinction... notes that Afrotheria as currently reconstructed includes nearly a third of all mammalian orders currently found in Africa... While most extant species assigned to the cohort Afrotheria are found in Africa... Afrotheria is a division of the infraclass... Afrotheria are believed to have originated in...Encyclodia Page On: Afrotheria |
