Alternative view after Carroll 1988 (originally from Novacek & Wyss 1986??)

<==o EPITHERIA McKenna, 1975 sensu McKenna & Bell, 1997
   |?- †Hyotheridium dobsoni Gregory & Simpson, 1926
   |?- †Murtoilestes abramovi Averianov & Skutschas, 2001
   |?-o †Deccanolestes Prasad & Sahni, 1988
   |  |-- †D. hislopi Prasad & Sahni, 1988
   |  `-- †D. robustus Prasad, Jaeger, Sahni, Gheerbrant & Khajuria, 1994
   |?-o †ASIORYCTITHERIA Novacek, el al., 1997
   |  `--o Asioryctidae Kielan-Jaworowska, 1981
   |     |-- †Asioryctes nemegetensis Kielan-Jaworowska, 1975
   |     `-- †Ukhaatherium nessovi Novacek, Rougier, Wible, McKenna, Dashzeveg & Horovitz, 1997
   |-- LEPTICTIDA [Asioryctitheria Novacek, et al. 1997 sensu McKenna & Bell, 1997, Proeutheria, Palaeanodonta, Pholidota??!!]
   `--o PREPTOTHERIA
      |--+-- ARCHONTA (kädellistensukuiset)
      |  `-- ANAGALIDA (jyrsijöidensukuiset)
      `--+--o INSECTIVORA
         |  `-- LIPOTYPHLA Haeckel, 1866 (nykyhyönteissyöjät)
         `?-o FERUNGULATA
            |-- UNGULATOMORPHA Archibald, J. D., 1996
            `--o FERAE
               |?- CIMOLESTA [Problematic, see alternative tree after Carroll 1988]
               `--+-- †CREODONTA (kreodontit)
                  `-- CARNIVORAMORPHA (nykypetoeläinmäiset nisäkkäät, modern carnivores and their extinct relatives)


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Archibald, J. D., 1996: Fossil evidence for a Late Cretaceous origin of "hoofed" mammals. --Science: Vol. 272, 24 May, pp. 1150-1153 Averianov, A. O., 2000: Mammals from the Mesozoic of Kirgizstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Tadzhikistan. 627-652 in Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unvin, D. M. & Kurochkin, E. N., (eds.) 2000: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. --Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000 xxxix-696

Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
–W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698

Carroll, R. L., 1988: Appendix. 594-648
in Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
–W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698

Kielan-Jaworowska, Z., Novacek, M. J., Trofimov, B. A. & Dashzeveg, D., 2000: Mammals from the Mesozoic of Mongolia. 573-626 in Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unvin, D. M. & Kurochkin, E. N., (eds.) 2000: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. --Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000 xxxix-696

McKenna, M. C. & Bell, S. K., (eds.) 1997: Classification of mammals – above the species level.
–Columbia University Press, New York, 1997, xii-631

Novacek, M. J., Rougier, G. W., Wible, J. R., McKenna, M. C., Dashzeveg, D. & Horovitz, I., 1997: Epipubic bones in eutherian mammals from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. –Nature: Vol. 389, 2 October, pp. 483-486 Prasad, G. V. R., Jaeger, J.-J., Sahni, A., Gheerbrant, E. & Khajuria, C. K., 1994: Eutherian mammals from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) intertrappean beds of Naskal, Andhra Pradesh, India. –Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 14, #2, pp. 260-277