Mikko's Phylogeny Archive Main Groups of Metatherian Mammals   Notometatheria - South American and Australian Metatheres

After de Muizon et al., 1997

<==o Notometatheria (etelä-amerikkalaiset ja australialaiset pussieläimet)
   |?- †Ischyrodidelphis
   |?- †Xenodelphis
   |?- †Progarzonia
   |?- †Pascualdelphys fierroensis
   |?- †Peradectidae Crochet, 1979 [Didelphidae: Peradectinae Crochet, 1979 sensu McKenna & Bell, 1997]
   `--o Marsupialia Illeger, 1811 sensu lato (modern metatheres, marsupials; nykypussieläimet)
      |?- Paucituberculata Ameghino, 1894 [Polydolopimorphia Marshall, in Archer, ed., 1982]
      `--+-- †Hondadelphys fieldsi Marshall, 1976 [Hondadelphidae Marshall, Case & Woodburne, 1990]
         `--o Marsupialia Illeger, 1811 sensu stricto (modern metatheres, marsupials; nykypussieläimet)
            |--o Didelphimorphia
            |  |-- †Sparassodonta Ameghino, 1884 [Synonyms] (marsupial hyaenas; pussihyeenat)
            |  `--o Didelphioidea sensu Rougier et al., 1997
            |     |-- †Andinodelphys cochabambensis
            |     |-- †Pucadelphys andinus
            |     |?- †Szalinia gracilis de Muizon & Cifelli, 2001
            |     `-- Didelphioidea (opossumiensukuiset)
            `-- Australidelphia Szalay, 1982, in Archer, ed., 1982 (Australian marsupials; australian pussieläimet)


Reference(s):

Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.

–W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698

Carroll, R. L., 1988: Appendix. 594-648

in Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.

–W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698

    Ducrocq, S., Buffetaut, E., Buffetaut-Tong, H., Jaeger, J.-J.,
Jongkanjanasoontorn, Y. & Suteethorn, V., 1992: First fossil marsupial from South Asia.
–Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 12, #3, pp. 395-399

    de Muizon, C. & Cifelli, R. L., 2001:
A new basal "didelphoid" (Marsupialia, Mammalia) from the Early Paleocene of Tiupampa (Bolivia).
–Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 21, #1, pp. 87-97

    de Muizon, C., Cifelli, R. L. & Céspedes Paz, R., 1997:
The origin of the dog-like borhyaenoid marsupials of South America.
–Nature: Vol. 389, 2 October, pp. 486-489

McKenna, M. C. & Bell, S. K., eds., 1997: Classification of mammals; above the species level.

–Columbia University Press
, New York, 1997.

    Rougier, G. W., Wible, J. R. & Novacek, M. J., 1998:
Implications of Deltatheridium speciments for early marsupial history.
–Nature: Vol. 396, 3 December, pp. 459-463

    Zonneveld, J.-P., Gunnell, G. F. & Bartels, W. S., 2000:
Early Eocene fossil vertebrates from the southwestern Green River basin,
Lincoln and Uinta Counties, Wyoming.
–Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 20, #2, pp. 369-386