Euarchonta
grandorder of humans and their ancestors
The Euarchonta are a grandorder of mammals containing four orders: the Dermoptera or colugos, the Scandentia or treeshrews, the extinct Plesiadapiformes, and the Primates.
| Euarchontans Temporal range: Late Cretaceous - Recent
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| Euarchonts: upper left: Plesiadapis, upper right: Northern Treeshrew, lower left: Sunda Flying Lemur and lower right: Yellow Baboon | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Superorder: | Euarchontoglires |
| Grandorder: | Euarchonta |
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Euarchonta and Glires together form the Euarchontoglires, one of the four Eutherian clades.
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