Dinnetherium has sometimes been placed in the family Megazostrodontidae, but in 2011 the monotypic family Dinnetheriidae and order Dinnetheria were erected for the genus.[3]
Classification
The phylogenetic position of Dinnetherium within mammaliaforms is shown in the cladogram below:[4]
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^Sues H.-D., Clark J. M., et al (1994) A review of the Early Jurassic tetrapods from the Glen Canyon Group of the American Southwest., In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods, N. C. Fraser and H.-D. Sues (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 284-294
^ abA. O. Averianov and A. V. Lopatin. 2011. Phylogeny of Triconodonts and Symmetrodonts and the Origin of Extant Mammals. Doklady Biological Sciences 436:32-35
