Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals
   Subclass Boreosphenida Luo, Cifelli & Kielan-Jaworowska, 2001 - tribotherians see Clade Boreosphenida Luo, Cifelli & Kielan-Jaworowska 2001
     Infraclass Eutheria Gill, 1872
       Magnorder Epitheria McKenna, 1975 see Cohort Placentalia Owen, 1837
         Superorder Insectivora Bowdich, 1821
           Order Lipotyphla Haeckel, 1866 see Order Eulipotyphla Waddell, Okada & Hasegawa, 1999
             Suborder Soricomorpha Gregory, 1910
               1 Family †"Nyctitheriidae" Simpson, 1928 [paraphyletic]