Talk:Multituberculata

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Rather than listing the families here, it's far more practical to restrict it to the suborders. There are only two.
The number of families is far greater; eg. "Plagiaulacida" includes, (working from memory, so I might forget some), Allodontidae, Paulchoffatiidae, Hahnodontidae, Pinheirodontidae, Albionbaataridae, Eobaataridae and Plagiaulacidae.
The second suborder, Cimolodonta, is more extensive.
A family list would be loooooooooooooooooooooooong.

[edit] Allotheria

Since the Allotheria article redirects here, shouldn't there be some sort of explanation of why this is the case in the article? The word Allotheria appears nowhere in this article. Lokicarbis 12:11, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

Chiming in a bit late here, but I agree. I've come across several articles that redirect somewhere else, and that word is nowhere to be found in the article. According to this, Allotheria is a subclass of mammals, containing the single order Multituberculata. So I wouldn't say they're the same thing, but a redirect is probably not unreasonable provided someone more knowledgeable than I gives an explanation in the article. --Decoder24 21:52, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Something is wrong here. Multituberculata were not the only order within subclass Allotheria. For example, Docodonta and Triconodonta. The redirect needs to be reverted. --Philo 13:16, 28 April 2007 (UTC)