Pholidotamorpha
Pholidotamorpha ("shape of pangolin") is a clade of mammals that includes the orders Palaeanodonta and Pholidota (the pangolins). In the past both orders were formerly classified with various other orders of ant-eating mammals, most notably Xenarthra, which includes the true anteaters, sloths, and the armadillos which pangolins superficially resemble. Newer genetic evidence, however, indicates their closest living relatives are the Carnivora with which they form the clade Ferae. Some palaeontologists, placing family Ernanodontidae in a separate suborder Ernanodonta of Cimolesta near Pholidota, have classified the pangolins in the order Cimolesta, together with several extinct groups indicated (†) below, though this idea has fallen out of favor since it was determined that cimolestids were not placental mammals. A 2012 study from new remains found in Late Paleocene Mongolian strata have led to the assessment that "Ernanodon" is closely related to "Metacheiromys" within the order Palaeanodonta, which, in the study, was reaffirmed to be the sister taxon of Pholidota.
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Palaeanodonta
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Pholidota
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Xenarthra
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anteater
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sloth
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armadillo
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Carnivora
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Ferae
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palaeontologists
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Ernanodontidae
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Pholidota
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Cimolesta
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Mongolia
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Ernanodon
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Metacheiromys
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Palaeanodonta
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Pholidotamorpha
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2012
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