Scypheramorpha

Scypheramorpha (meaning "scypher-shaped") is a mirorder and a clade of placental Atarian mammaliforms that includes the scyphers, the darrels, their last common ancestor, and all of its descendants.

=Description= Scypheramorphs have a generalized mammalian body plan with four paws bearing claws, a long tail, fur cover, and specialized teeth. Most members are carnivorous, though fully herbivorous, fructivorous, insectivorous, piscivorous, and omnivorous forms are known. Scyphers additionally bare a scyphic apparatus, a trait lost among the darrels. Scyphers exterior ears are reduced in size, while they are elongated in darrels. Darrels are typically much smaller in size than scyphers, and among the scyphers, giant forms are known.

Scypheramorphs are distinquished from other atarian mammaliforms by the possession of prehensile digits on the forepaws, a fur covered rostrum lacking whiskers, possession of a scyphic nerve, a fully fused kidney, and posteriorally positioned external ears.