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The 17 pages that link to Crown group, each with the reason it gives.

• CarnivoraRelated: Living Carnivora form a crown group whose ancestry anchors the order’s definition.

• Evolution of mammalsRelated: This definition separates crown Mammalia from many extinct mammal-like synapsids.

• Fossil calibrationRelated: A fossil's placement inside or outside a crown group changes which divergence it constrains.

• CaniformiaRelated: The crown-group definition clarifies which living lineages belong in a clade.

• CetartiodactylaRelated: This distinction helps separate living cetartiodactyl lineages from extinct stem relatives.

• MorganucodonRelated: This definition clarifies why mammaliaforms such as Morganucodon need not be mammals in the strict sense.

• ArchosauriformesRelated: Archosauria is the crown group nested within the broader Archosauriformes.

• MetatheriaRelated: The distinction between Metatheria and Marsupialia depends on whether extinct stem relatives are included.

• Evolution of tetrapodsRelated: Crown-group definitions distinguish living tetrapod ancestry from earlier stem tetrapods.

• PlacentaliaRelated: Its definition determines which fossils count as placentals rather than stem eutherians.

• ReptiliomorphaRelated: The distinction separates crown amniotes from the broader set of reptiliomorph stem relatives.