| Afrotheria | |
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| Left to right and top to bottom: African bush elephant, golden-rumped elephant shrew, aardvark, tailless tenrec, rock hyrax, and dugong | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| clade: | Atlantogenata |
| Superorder: | Afrotheria Stanhope et al., 1998 |
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Afrotheria is a super-order of mammals that originated in Africa, actually Gondwana, around 105 mya. This super-order includes elephant shrews, tenrecs and golden moles, the aardvark, hyraxes, elephants, manatees, and the dugong. It is one of four super-orders of placental mammals; the other three are Laurasiatheria, Xenarthra, and Euarchontoglires.