- monte's
lineage is the most
basal of the superorder. The
Australian australidelphians form a clade, for
which the name
Euaustralidelphia ("true Australidelphia")...
- Now
considered paraphyletic, with
shrew opossums being closer to
australidelphians.
Cohort Placentalia:
placentals Magnorder Xenarthra:
xenarthrans Magnorder...
-
Microbiotheria is an
australidelphian marsupial order that encomp****es two families,
Microbiotheriidae and Woodburnodontidae, and is
represented by only...
-
South America's
monito del
monte (a microbiothere, the only New
World australidelphian). This
progenitor may have
rafted across the widening, but
still narrow...
-
years ago (mya).
Djarthia had been
identified as the
earliest known australidelphian, and this
research suggested that the
monito del
monte was the last...
- as the
sister taxon to a dasyuromorph-peramelian clade,
within the
Australidelphian radiation. Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds...
- carnivorous. It is the
sister group to a
clade containing all
other extant australidelphians (roughly 238 species).
Ziphodont (lateromedially compressed, recurved...
- of
isolated tarsals of
Djarthia murgonensis with an
extant australidelphian marsupial and an
extant non-
australidelphian (‘ameridelphian’) marsupial...
-
Microbiotheriidae is a
family of
australidelphian marsupials represented by only one
extant species, the
monito del monte, and a
number of
extinct species...
- basal,
implying that the group's
ancestry was in the Old World.
Extant australidelphian marsupials constitute about 240
species in
Australasia and one species...
