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rgb(235,235,210)">Metatheria<br /><div style="font-size: 85%;">Temporal range: <span class="noprint"><span style="display:inline-block;"></span><span style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Early_Cretaceous" title="Early Cretaceous">Early Cretaceous</a>–recent<sup id="cite_ref-SCI-20130208_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SCI-20130208-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Bennett_2018_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bennett_2018-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Bi_2018_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bi_2018-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </span> <span style="display:inline-block;"></span><div id="Timeline-row" style="margin: 4px auto 0; clear:both; width:220px; padding:0px; height:18px; overflow:visible; white-space:nowrap; border:1px #666; border-style:solid none; 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width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr.svg/23px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr.svg/30px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></span> </th></tr> <tr> <td>Domain: </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Eukaryote" title="Eukaryote">Eukaryota</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Kingdom: </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Animal" title="Animal">Animalia</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Phylum: </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chordate" title="Chordate">Chordata</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Class: </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mammal" title="Mammal">Mammalia</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Subclass: </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Theria" title="Theria">Theria</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i>Clade</i>: </td> <td><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Metatheria</a><br /><small><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Henry_Huxley" title="Thomas Henry Huxley">Huxley</a>, 1880</small> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="color:inherit; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(235,235,210)">Subgroups </th></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align: left"> <ul><li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i>?<a href="/wiki/Sinodelphys" title="Sinodelphys">Sinodelphys</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/wiki/Holoclemensia" title="Holoclemensia">Holoclemensia</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Adinodon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Adinodon (page does not exist)">Adinodon</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><a href="/wiki/Deltatheroida" title="Deltatheroida">Deltatheroida</a></li> <li><b>Marsupialiformes</b> <ul><li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Adelodelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Adelodelphys (page does not exist)">Adelodelphys</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><a href="/wiki/Alphadontidae" title="Alphadontidae">Alphadontidae</a></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><a href="/wiki/Asiadelphia" class="mw-redirect" title="Asiadelphia">Asiadelphia</a></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sinbadelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sinbadelphys (page does not exist)">Sinbadelphys</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Camptomus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Camptomus (page does not exist)">Camptomus</a></i>?</li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><b>Archimetatheria</b> <ul><li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><a href="/wiki/Stagodontidae" title="Stagodontidae">Stagodontidae</a></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Iqualadelphis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Iqualadelphis (page does not exist)">Iqualadelphis</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><a href="/wiki/Sparassodonta" title="Sparassodonta">Sparassodonta</a></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pucadelphyidae&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pucadelphyidae (page does not exist)">Pucadelphyidae</a></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><a href="/wiki/Herpetotheriidae" title="Herpetotheriidae">Herpetotheriidae</a></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><a href="/wiki/Anatoliadelphyidae" title="Anatoliadelphyidae">Anatoliadelphyidae</a></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><a href="/wiki/Polydolopimorphia" title="Polydolopimorphia">Polydolopimorphia</a></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><a href="/wiki/Peradectidae" title="Peradectidae">Peradectidae</a></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pediomyidae&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pediomyidae (page does not exist)">Pediomyidae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marsupialia" class="mw-redirect" title="Marsupialia">Marsupialia</a></li></ul></li></ul> </td></tr> </tbody></table><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238732961">@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox.biota tr{background:transparent!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox.biota img{background:transparent}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox.biota tr{background:transparent!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox.biota img{background:white}}.mw-parser-output .infobox.biota .taxobox-edit-taxonomy img{background:transparent!important}body.skin-vector .mw-parser-output table.biota.infobox{margin-top:0.5em}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output table.biota.infobox tr.taxonrow td{padding:2px 10px}</style> <p><b>Metatheria</b> is a mammalian <a href="/wiki/Clade" title="Clade">clade</a> that includes all <a href="/wiki/Mammal" title="Mammal">mammals</a> more closely related to <a href="/wiki/Marsupial" title="Marsupial">marsupials</a> than to <a href="/wiki/Placental" class="mw-redirect" title="Placental">placentals</a>. First proposed by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Henry_Huxley" title="Thomas Henry Huxley">Thomas Henry Huxley</a> in 1880, it is a more inclusive group than the marsupials; it contains all marsupials as well as many extinct non-marsupial relatives. It is one of two groups placed in the clade <a href="/wiki/Theria" title="Theria">Theria</a> alongside <a href="/wiki/Eutheria" title="Eutheria">Eutheria</a>, which contains the placentals. Remains of metatherians have been found on all of Earth’s continents. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Description">Description</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Metatheria&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Description"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Distinctive characteristics (<a href="/wiki/Synapomorphies" class="mw-redirect" title="Synapomorphies">synapomorphies</a>) of Metatheria include a <a href="/wiki/Prehensile_tail" title="Prehensile tail">prehensile tail</a>, the development of a capitular tail on the humerus, the loss of tooth replacement on the second and fifth <a href="/wiki/Premolars" class="mw-redirect" title="Premolars">premolars</a>, lower <a href="/wiki/Canine_tooth" title="Canine tooth">canines</a> that outwardly diverge from each other, an <a href="/wiki/Angular_process" class="mw-redirect" title="Angular process">angular process</a> on the dentary bone—which additionally bears a posterior shelf in its masseteric fossa in Metatheria<sup id="cite_ref-:2_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>—that is equal to or greater than the length of the <a href="/wiki/Ramus_mandibulae" class="mw-redirect" title="Ramus mandibulae">ramus</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-:2_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: Appendix 2">: Appendix 2 </span></sup> and the lower fifth premolar with a "very trenchant"<sup id="cite_ref-:2_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> cristid obliqua/ectolophid. The permanent, retained deciduous fifth premolars are <a href="/wiki/Molar_(tooth)" title="Molar (tooth)">molar</a> like and were historically identified as first molars, with the third premolar found in basal <a href="/wiki/Theria" title="Theria">therians</a> being lost, leaving four premolars in the halves of each jaw.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Sinodelphys" title="Sinodelphys">Sinodelphys</a></i> differs in its dentition and may represent a basal metatherian.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Evolutionary_history">Evolutionary history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Metatheria&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Evolutionary history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The relationships between the three extant divisions of mammals (<a href="/wiki/Monotreme" title="Monotreme">monotremes</a>, marsupials, and <a href="/wiki/Placentalia" title="Placentalia">placentals</a>) was long a matter of debate among <a href="/wiki/Taxonomy_(biology)" title="Taxonomy (biology)">taxonomists</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Moyal2004_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Moyal2004-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most <a href="/wiki/Morphology_(biology)" title="Morphology (biology)">morphological</a> evidence comparing traits, such as the <a href="/wiki/Dentition" title="Dentition">number and arrangement of teeth</a> and the structure of the <a href="/wiki/Genitourinary_system" title="Genitourinary system">reproductive and waste elimination systems</a>, favors a closer evolutionary relationship between marsupials and placental mammals than either has with the monotremes, as does most <a href="/wiki/Molecular_genetics" title="Molecular genetics">genetic and molecular</a> evidence.<sup id="cite_ref-Rheede2005_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rheede2005-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The earliest possible known metatherian is <i><a href="/wiki/Sinodelphys" title="Sinodelphys">Sinodelphys szalayi</a></i>, which lived in <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Early_Cretaceous" title="Early Cretaceous">Early Cretaceous</a> around 125 million years ago (mya).<sup id="cite_ref-:2_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This makes it a contemporary to some early eutherian species that have been found in the same area.<sup id="cite_ref-acristatherium_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-acristatherium-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, Bi <i>et al.</i> (2018) reinterpreted <i>Sinodelphys</i> as an early member of Eutheria. The oldest uncontested metatherians are now 110 million year old fossils from western North America.<sup id="cite_ref-Bi_2018_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bi_2018-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Metatherians were widespread in Asia and North America during the Late Cretaceous, including both <a href="/wiki/Deltatheroida" title="Deltatheroida">Deltatheroida</a> and Marsupialiformes,<sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with fossils also known from Europe during this time. During the Late Cretaceous, metatherians were more diverse than eutherians in North America.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Metatherians underwent a severe decline during the <a href="/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_extinction_event" title="Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event">Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event</a>, more severe than that suffered by contemporary eutherians and <a href="/wiki/Multituberculates" class="mw-redirect" title="Multituberculates">multituberculates</a>, and were slower to recover diversity.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Morphological and species diversity of metatherians in <a href="/wiki/Laurasia" title="Laurasia">Laurasia</a> remained low in comparison to eutherians throughout the Cenozoic.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The two major groups of Cenozoic Laurasian metatherians, the opossum-like <a href="/wiki/Herpetotheriidae" title="Herpetotheriidae">herpetotheriids</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peradectidae" title="Peradectidae">peradectids</a> persisted into the <a href="/wiki/Miocene" title="Miocene">Miocene</a> before becoming extinct, with the North American herpetotheriid <i><a href="/wiki/Herpetotherium" title="Herpetotherium">Herpetotherium</a></i>, the European herpetotheriid <i><a href="/wiki/Amphiperatherium" title="Amphiperatherium">Amphiperatherium</a></i> and the peradectids <i><a href="/wiki/Siamoperadectes" title="Siamoperadectes">Siamoperadectes</a></i> and <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sinoperadectes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sinoperadectes (page does not exist)">Sinoperadectes</a></i> from Asia being the youngest Laurasian non-marsupial metatherians (with marsupials invading North America during the <a href="/wiki/Pliocene" title="Pliocene">Pliocene</a>-<a href="/wiki/Pleistocene" title="Pleistocene">Pleistocene</a> as part of the <a href="/wiki/Great_American_Interchange" title="Great American Interchange">Great American interchange</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Metatherians first arrived in Afro-Arabia during the <a href="/wiki/Paleogene" title="Paleogene">Paleogene</a>, probably from Europe, including the possible peradectoid <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kasserinotherium&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kasserinotherium (page does not exist)">Kasserinotherium</a></i> from the Early Eocene of Tunisia and the herpetotheriid <i><a href="/wiki/Peratherium_africanum" class="mw-redirect" title="Peratherium africanum">Peratherium africanum</a></i> from the Early <a href="/wiki/Oligocene" title="Oligocene">Oligocene</a> of Egypt and Oman. The youngest African metatherian is the possible herpetotheriid <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Morotodon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Morotodon (page does not exist)">Morotodon</a></i> from the late <a href="/wiki/Early_Miocene" title="Early Miocene">Early Miocene</a> of <a href="/wiki/Uganda" title="Uganda">Uganda</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Metatherians arrived in South America from North America during the latest Cretaceous or <a href="/wiki/Paleocene" title="Paleocene">Paleocene</a> and underwent a major diversificiation, with South American metatherians including both the ancestors of extant marsupials as well as the extinct <a href="/wiki/Sparassodonta" title="Sparassodonta">Sparassodonta</a>, which were major predators in South American ecosystems during most of the <a href="/wiki/Cenozoic" title="Cenozoic">Cenozoic</a>, up until their extinction in the <a href="/wiki/Pliocene" title="Pliocene">Pliocene</a>, as well as the <a href="/wiki/Polydolopimorphia" title="Polydolopimorphia">Polydolopimorphia</a>, which likely had a wide range of diets.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Metatherians then declined in diversity in South America during the Late Eocene as well as the later Oligocene epoch. The oldest known Australian marsupials are from the early Eocene, and are thought to have arrived in the region after having dispersed via Antarctica from South America.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the Oligocene epoch, Australian metatherians radiated rapidly, which contributed most to the global peak in metatherian diversity during the Early Miocene. The only known Antarctic metatherians are from the Early Eocene <a href="/wiki/La_Meseta_Formation" title="La Meseta Formation">La Meseta Formation</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Antarctic_Peninsula" title="Antarctic Peninsula">Antarctic Peninsula</a>, where they are the most diverse group of mammals, and include marsupials as well as polydolopimorphians.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_11-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Classification">Classification</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Metatheria&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Classification"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Below is a metatherian <a href="/wiki/Cladogram" title="Cladogram">cladogram</a> from Wilson et al. (2016):<sup id="cite_ref-wilson2016_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wilson2016-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="clade"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1261294616">body.skin-vector-2022 .mw-parser-output div.clade,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output div.clade{overflow-x:auto;overflow-y:hidden}body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output div.clade p{font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output table.clade{border-spacing:0;margin:0;font-size:100%;line-height:100%;border-collapse:separate;width:auto;display:table}.mw-parser-output table.clade table.clade{width:100%;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-label{min-width:0.2em;width:0.2em;padding:0.1em 0.25em;vertical-align:bottom;text-align:center;border-left:1px solid;border-bottom:1px solid;white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-label::before,.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-slabel::before{content:"\2060 "}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-fixed-width{overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-fixed-width:hover{overflow:visible}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-label.first{border-left:none;border-right:none}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-label.reverse{border-left:none;border-right:1px solid}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-slabel{padding:0.1em 0.25em;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;border-left:1px solid;white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-slabel:hover{overflow:visible}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-slabel.last{border-left:none;border-right:none}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-slabel.reverse{border-left:none;border-right:1px solid}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-bar{vertical-align:middle;text-align:left;padding:0 0.5em;position:relative}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-bar.reverse{text-align:right;position:relative}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-leaf{border:0;padding:0;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-leaf p{padding-right:5px;padding-left:2px}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-leafR{border:0;padding:0;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-leafR p{padding-left:5px;padding-right:2px}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-leaf.reverse{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-leaf.reverse p{padding-left:5px;padding-right:2px}.mw-parser-output table.clade:hover span.linkA{background-color:yellow}.mw-parser-output table.clade:hover span.linkB{background-color:green}</style> <table class="clade" style="font-size:85%; line-height:85%"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first">Metatheria </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Holoclemensia" title="Holoclemensia">Holoclemensia</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"><a href="/wiki/Deltatheroida" title="Deltatheroida">Deltatheroida</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"><a href="/wiki/Pappotheriidae" class="mw-redirect" title="Pappotheriidae">Pappotheriidae</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Pappotherium" title="Pappotherium">Pappotherium</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"><a href="/wiki/Deltatheridiidae" title="Deltatheridiidae">Deltatheridiidae</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Sulestes" title="Sulestes">Sulestes</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Oklatheridium" title="Oklatheridium">Oklatheridium</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Tsagandelta" title="Tsagandelta">Tsagandelta</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Lotheridium" title="Lotheridium">Lotheridium</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Deltatheroides" title="Deltatheroides">Deltatheroides</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Deltatheridium" title="Deltatheridium">Deltatheridium</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Nanocuris" title="Nanocuris">Nanocuris</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Atokatheridium" title="Atokatheridium">Atokatheridium</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label">Marsupialiformes </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><a href="/wiki/Gurlin_Tsav_skull" title="Gurlin Tsav skull">Gurlin Tsav skull</a> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><a href="/wiki/Borhyaenidae" title="Borhyaenidae">Borhyaenidae</a> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Mayulestes" title="Mayulestes">Mayulestes</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jaskhadelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jaskhadelphys (page does not exist)">Jaskhadelphys</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Andinodelphys" title="Andinodelphys">Andinodelphys</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Pucadelphys" title="Pucadelphys">Pucadelphys</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Asiatherium" title="Asiatherium">Asiatherium</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Iugomortiferum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Iugomortiferum (page does not exist)">Iugomortiferum</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kokopellia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kokopellia (page does not exist)">Kokopellia</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aenigmadelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Aenigmadelphys (page does not exist)">Aenigmadelphys</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anchistodelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anchistodelphys (page does not exist)">Anchistodelphys</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Glasbiidae&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Glasbiidae (page does not exist)">Glasbiidae</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Glasbius&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Glasbius (page does not exist)">Glasbius</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pediomyidae&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pediomyidae (page does not exist)">Pediomyidae</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Pediomys" title="Pediomys">Pediomys</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"><a href="/wiki/Stagodontidae" title="Stagodontidae">Stagodontidae</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pariadens&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pariadens (page does not exist)">Pariadens</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Eodelphis" title="Eodelphis">Eodelphis</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Didelphodon" title="Didelphodon">Didelphodon</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf" style="border-right:2px solid green;border-bottom:0;border-top:0;"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Turgidodon" title="Turgidodon">Turgidodon</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf" style="border-right:2px solid green;border-bottom:0;border-top:0;"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Alphadon" title="Alphadon">Alphadon</a></i> </p> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-bar" style=""><a href="/wiki/Alphadontidae" title="Alphadontidae">Alphadontidae</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf" style="border-right:2px solid green;border-bottom:0;border-top:0;"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Albertatherium" title="Albertatherium">Albertatherium</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><a href="/wiki/Marsupial" title="Marsupial">Marsupialia</a> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div><p>Cladogram after<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>:</p><div class="clade"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first">Metatheria </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><a href="/wiki/Deltatheroida" title="Deltatheroida">Deltatheriidae</a> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kokopellia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kokopellia (page does not exist)">Kokopellia</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Asiatherium" title="Asiatherium">Asiatherium</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><a href="/wiki/Peradectidae" title="Peradectidae">Peradectidae</a> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><a href="/wiki/Stagodontidae" title="Stagodontidae">Stagodontidae</a> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pucadelphyidae&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pucadelphyidae (page does not exist)">Pucadelphyidae</a> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><a href="/wiki/Sparassodonta" title="Sparassodonta">Sparassodonta</a> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf" style="border-right:2px solid green;border-bottom:0;border-top:0;"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Amphiperatherium" title="Amphiperatherium">Amphiperatherium</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Peratherium" title="Peratherium">Peratherium</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-bar" style="">"<a href="/wiki/Herpetotheriidae" title="Herpetotheriidae">Herpetotheriidae</a>" </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1261294616"> <table class="clade"> <tbody><tr> <td class="clade-label first"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf" style="border-right:2px solid green;border-bottom:0;border-top:0;"> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Herpetotherium" title="Herpetotherium">Herpetotherium</a></i> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel"> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-label"> </td> <td rowspan="2" class="clade-leaf"> <p><a href="/wiki/Marsupialia" class="mw-redirect" title="Marsupialia">Marsupialia</a> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="clade-slabel last"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <p><br /> Below is a listing of metatherians that do not fall readily into well-defined groups. </p><p>Basal Metatheria </p> <ul><li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Archaeonothos&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Archaeonothos (page does not exist)">Archaeonothos henkgodthelpi</a></i> <small>Beck 2015</small></li> <li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Esteslestes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Esteslestes (page does not exist)">Esteslestes ensis</a></i> <small>Novacek et al. 1991</small></li> <li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghamidtherium&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ghamidtherium (page does not exist)">Ghamidtherium dimaiensis</a></i> <small>Sánches-Villagra et al. 2007</small></li> <li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kasserinotherium&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kasserinotherium (page does not exist)">Kasserinotherium tunisiense</a></i> <small>Crochet 1989</small></li> <li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Palangania&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Palangania (page does not exist)">Palangania brandmayri</a></i> <small>Goin et al. 1998</small></li> <li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Perrodelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Perrodelphys (page does not exist)">Perrodelphys coquinense</a></i> <small>Goin et al. 1999</small></li></ul> <p>Ameridelphia incertae sedis: </p> <ul><li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apistodon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Apistodon (page does not exist)">Apistodon exiguus</a></i> <small>(Fox 1971) Davis 2007</small></li> <li>†<i><a href="/wiki/Cocatherium" title="Cocatherium">Cocatherium lefipanum</a></i> <small>Goin et al. 2006</small></li> <li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dakotadens&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dakotadens (page does not exist)">Dakotadens morrowi</a></i> <small>Eaton 1993</small></li> <li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Iugomortiferum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Iugomortiferum (page does not exist)">Iugomortiferum thoringtoni</a></i> <small>Cifelli 1990b</small></li> <li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marambiotherium&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marambiotherium (page does not exist)">Marambiotherium glacialis</a></i> <small>Goin et al. 1999</small></li> <li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marmosopsis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marmosopsis (page does not exist)">Marmosopsis juradoi</a></i> <small>Paula Couto 1962</small> [Marmosopsini <small>Kirsch & Palma 1995</small>]</li> <li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pascualdelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pascualdelphys (page does not exist)">Pascualdelphys fierroensis</a></i></li> <li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Progarzonia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Progarzonia (page does not exist)">Progarzonia notostylopense</a></i> <small>Ameghino 1904</small></li> <li>†<i><a href="/wiki/Protalphadon" title="Protalphadon">Protalphadon</a></i> <small>Cifelli 1990</small> <ul><li>†<i><a href="/wiki/Protalphadon" title="Protalphadon">P. lulli</a></i> <small>(Clemens 1966) Cifelli 1990a</small></li> <li>†<i><a href="/wiki/Protalphadon" title="Protalphadon">P. foxi</a></i> <small>Johnson 1996</small></li></ul></li></ul> <p>Marsupialia incertae sedis: </p> <ul><li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Itaboraidelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Itaboraidelphys (page does not exist)">Itaboraidelphys camposi</a></i> <small>Marshall & de Muizon 1984</small></li> <li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mizquedelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mizquedelphys (page does not exist)">Mizquedelphys pilpinensis</a></i> <small>Marshall & de Muizon 1988</small></li> <li>†<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Numbigilga&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Numbigilga (page does not exist)">Numbigilga ernielundeliusi</a></i> <small>Beck et al. 2008</small> {Numbigilgidae <small>Beck et al. 2008</small>}</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Metatheria&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Adinodon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Adinodon (page does not exist)">Adinodon</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Archaeonothos&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Archaeonothos (page does not exist)">Archaeonothos</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Esteslestes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Esteslestes (page does not exist)">Esteslestes</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghamidtherium&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ghamidtherium (page does not exist)">Ghamidtherium</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/wiki/Holoclemensia" title="Holoclemensia">Holoclemensia</a></i>?</li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kasserinotherium&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kasserinotherium (page does not exist)">Kasserinotherium</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/wiki/Protalphadon" title="Protalphadon">Protalphadon</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/wiki/Sinodelphys" title="Sinodelphys">Sinodelphys</a></i>?</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><a href="/wiki/Deltatheroida" title="Deltatheroida">Deltatheroida</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Pappotherium" title="Pappotherium">Pappotherium</a></i>?</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Deltatheridiidae" title="Deltatheridiidae">Deltatheridiidae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Atokatheridium" title="Atokatheridium">Atokatheridium</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Deltatheridium" title="Deltatheridium">Deltatheridium</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Deltatheroides" title="Deltatheroides">Deltatheroides</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gurbanodelta" title="Gurbanodelta">Gurbanodelta</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lotheridium" title="Lotheridium">Lotheridium</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nanocuris" title="Nanocuris">Nanocuris</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Oklatheridium" title="Oklatheridium">Oklatheridium</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prodeltitheridium&action=edit&redlink=1" 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inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Adelodelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Adelodelphys (page does not exist)">Adelodelphys</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aenigmadelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Aenigmadelphys (page does not exist)">Aenigmadelphys</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anchistodelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anchistodelphys (page does not exist)">Anchistodelphys</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/wiki/Andinodelphys" title="Andinodelphys">Andinodelphys</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/wiki/Arcantiodelphys" title="Arcantiodelphys">Arcantiodelphys</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Camptomus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Camptomus (page does not exist)">Camptomus</a></i>?</li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Glasbius&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Glasbius (page does not exist)">Glasbius</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><a href="/wiki/Gurlin_Tsav_skull" title="Gurlin Tsav skull">Gurlin Tsav skull</a></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Iugomortiferum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Iugomortiferum (page does not exist)">Iugomortiferum</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jaskhadelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jaskhadelphys (page does not exist)">Jaskhadelphys</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/wiki/Mayulestes" title="Mayulestes">Mayulestes</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/wiki/Pucadelphys" title="Pucadelphys">Pucadelphys</a></i></li> <li><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sinbadelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sinbadelphys (page does not exist)">Sinbadelphys</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><a href="/wiki/Sparassodonta" title="Sparassodonta">Sparassodonta</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><ul><li>see below↓</li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><a href="/wiki/Asiatheriidae" class="mw-redirect" title="Asiatheriidae">Asiatheriidae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Asiatherium" title="Asiatherium">Asiatherium</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kokopellia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kokopellia (page does not exist)">Kokopellia</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><a href="/w/index.php?title=Archimetatheria&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Archimetatheria (page does not exist)">Archimetatheria</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Iqualadelphis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Iqualadelphis (page does not exist)">Iqualadelphis</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Stagodontidae" title="Stagodontidae">Stagodontidae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Didelphodon" title="Didelphodon">Didelphodon</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eobrasilia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eobrasilia (page does not exist)">Eobrasilia</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Eodelphis" title="Eodelphis">Eodelphis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fumodelphodon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fumodelphodon (page does not exist)">Fumodelphodon</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hoodootherium&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hoodootherium (page does not exist)">Hoodootherium</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pariadens&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pariadens (page does not exist)">Pariadens</a></i>?</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pediomyoidea&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pediomyoidea (page does not exist)">Pediomyoidea</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aquiladelphis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Aquiladelphis (page does not exist)">Aquiladelphis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Austropediomys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Austropediomys (page does not exist)">Austropediomys</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dakotadens&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dakotadens (page does not exist)">Dakotadens</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monodelphopsis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Monodelphopsis (page does not exist)">Monodelphopsis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pediomys" title="Pediomys">Pediomys</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Protolambda&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Protolambda (page does not exist)">Protolambda</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Scalaridelphys" title="Scalaridelphys">Scalaridelphys</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Unnuakomys" title="Unnuakomys">Unnuakomys</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><a href="/wiki/Peradectidae" title="Peradectidae">Peradectidae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Armintodelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Armintodelphys (page does not exist)">Armintodelphys</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Didelphidectes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Didelphidectes (page does not exist)">Didelphidectes</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mimoperadectes" title="Mimoperadectes">Mimoperadectes</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nanodelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nanodelphys (page does not exist)">Nanodelphys</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Peradectes" title="Peradectes">Peradectes</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Siamoperadectes" title="Siamoperadectes">Siamoperadectes</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><a href="/wiki/Alphadontidae" title="Alphadontidae">Alphadontidae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Albertatherium" title="Albertatherium">Albertatherium</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Alphadon" title="Alphadon">Alphadon</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eoalphadon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eoalphadon (page does not exist)">Eoalphadon</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Turgidodon" title="Turgidodon">Turgidodon</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><a href="/wiki/Herpetotheriidae" title="Herpetotheriidae">Herpetotheriidae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Amphiperatherium" title="Amphiperatherium">Amphiperatherium</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Asiadidelphis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Asiadidelphis (page does not exist)">Asiadidelphis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Copedelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Copedelphys (page does not exist)">Copedelphys</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ectocentrocristus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ectocentrocristus (page does not exist)">Ectocentrocristus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Entomacodon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Entomacodon (page does not exist)">Entomacodon</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Galatiadelphys" title="Galatiadelphys">Galatiadelphys</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Golerdelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Golerdelphys (page does not exist)">Golerdelphys</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Herpetotherium" title="Herpetotherium">Herpetotherium</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Indodelphis" title="Indodelphis">Indodelphis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Maastrichtidelphys" title="Maastrichtidelphys">Maastrichtidelphys</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Morotodon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Morotodon (page does not exist)">Morotodon</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nortedelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nortedelphys (page does not exist)">Nortedelphys</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Peratherium" title="Peratherium">Peratherium</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rumiodon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rumiodon (page does not exist)">Rumiodon</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Swaindelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Swaindelphys (page does not exist)">Swaindelphys</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Thylacodon" class="mw-redirect" title="Thylacodon">Thylacodon</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><a href="/wiki/Anatoliadelphyidae" title="Anatoliadelphyidae">Anatoliadelphyidae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Anatoliadelphys" title="Anatoliadelphys">Anatoliadelphys</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Orhaniyeia" title="Orhaniyeia">Orhaniyeia</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><abbr title="Extinct" aria-label="Extinct" style="border: none; text-decoration: none; cursor: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;">†</abbr><a href="/wiki/Polydolopimorphia" title="Polydolopimorphia">Polydolopimorphia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><ul><li>see below↓</li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Marsupial" title="Marsupial">Marsupialia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Ameridelphia" title="Ameridelphia">Ameridelphia</a></b> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Opossum" title="Opossum">Didelphimorphia</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Paucituberculata" title="Paucituberculata">Paucituberculata</a></b></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Australidelphia" title="Australidelphia">Australidelphia</a></b></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="1" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Didelphodon_NT_small.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Didelphodon vorax"><img alt="Didelphodon vorax" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Didelphodon_NT_small.jpg/140px-Didelphodon_NT_small.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="67" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Didelphodon_NT_small.jpg/210px-Didelphodon_NT_small.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Didelphodon_NT_small.jpg/280px-Didelphodon_NT_small.jpg 2x" data-file-width="902" data-file-height="430" /></a></span> <p><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Alphadon_sp._-_MUSE.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Alphadon sp."><img alt="Alphadon sp." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Alphadon_sp._-_MUSE.jpg/140px-Alphadon_sp._-_MUSE.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="79" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Alphadon_sp._-_MUSE.jpg/210px-Alphadon_sp._-_MUSE.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Alphadon_sp._-_MUSE.jpg/280px-Alphadon_sp._-_MUSE.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3200" data-file-height="1800" /></a></span> </p> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Herpetotherium_NT.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Herpetotherium fugax"><img alt="Herpetotherium fugax" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Herpetotherium_NT.jpg/140px-Herpetotherium_NT.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="69" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Herpetotherium_NT.jpg/210px-Herpetotherium_NT.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Herpetotherium_NT.jpg/280px-Herpetotherium_NT.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="245" /></a></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3"><div id="Sparassodonta263" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Sparassodonta" title="Sparassodonta">Sparassodonta</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Sparassodonta103" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="position:absolute;transform: translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);;"><a href="/wiki/Sparassodonta" title="Sparassodonta">Sparassodonta</a></div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Allqokirus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Allqokirus (page does not exist)">Allqokirus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Argyrolestes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Argyrolestes (page does not exist)">Argyrolestes</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hondadelphys" title="Hondadelphys">Hondadelphys</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nemolestes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nemolestes (page does not exist)">Nemolestes</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Patene&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Patene (page does not exist)">Patene</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Procladosictis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Procladosictis (page does not exist)">Procladosictis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stylocynus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stylocynus (page does not exist)">Stylocynus</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hathliacynidae&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hathliacynidae (page does not exist)">Hathliacynidae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acyon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Acyon (page does not exist)">Acyon</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Australogale&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Australogale (page does not exist)">Australogale</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Borhyaenidium&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Borhyaenidium (page does not exist)">Borhyaenidium</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chasicostylus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chasicostylus (page does not exist)">Chasicostylus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cladosictis" title="Cladosictis">Cladosictis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Notictis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Notictis (page does not exist)">Notictis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Notocynus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Notocynus (page does not exist)">Notocynus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Notogale&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Notogale (page does not exist)">Notogale</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Perathereutes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Perathereutes (page does not exist)">Perathereutes</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pseudonotictis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pseudonotictis (page does not exist)">Pseudonotictis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sallacyon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sallacyon (page does not exist)">Sallacyon</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sipalocyon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sipalocyon (page does not exist)">Sipalocyon</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Borhyaenoidea" class="mw-redirect" title="Borhyaenoidea">Borhyaenoidea</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angelocabrerus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Angelocabrerus (page does not exist)">Angelocabrerus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chlorocyon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chlorocyon (page does not exist)">Chlorocyon</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dukecynus" title="Dukecynus">Dukecynus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Eomakhaira" title="Eomakhaira">Eomakhaira</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fredszalaya" title="Fredszalaya">Fredszalaya</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lycopsis" title="Lycopsis">Lycopsis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pharsophorus" title="Pharsophorus">Pharsophorus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plesiofelis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Plesiofelis (page does not exist)">Plesiofelis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Prothylacinus" title="Prothylacinus">Prothylacinus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pseudolycopsis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pseudolycopsis (page does not exist)">Pseudolycopsis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pseudothylacynus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pseudothylacynus (page does not exist)">Pseudothylacynus</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Borhyaenidae" title="Borhyaenidae">Borhyaenidae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acrocyon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Acrocyon (page does not exist)">Acrocyon</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arctodictis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arctodictis (page does not exist)">Arctodictis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Australohyaena" title="Australohyaena">Australohyaena</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Borhyaena" title="Borhyaena">Borhyaena</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eutemnodus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eutemnodus (page does not exist)">Eutemnodus</a></i>?</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Proborhyaenidae" title="Proborhyaenidae">Proborhyaenidae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Arminiheringia" title="Arminiheringia">Arminiheringia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Callistoe" title="Callistoe">Callistoe</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Paraborhyaena" title="Paraborhyaena">Paraborhyaena</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Proborhyaena" title="Proborhyaena">Proborhyaena</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Thylacosmiliformes" title="Thylacosmiliformes">Thylacosmiliformes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Dimartinia" title="Dimartinia">Dimartinia</a></i></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Thylacosmilidae19" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Thylacosmilidae" title="Thylacosmilidae">Thylacosmilidae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Anachlysictis" title="Anachlysictis">Anachlysictis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Patagosmilus" title="Patagosmilus">Patagosmilus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Thylacosmilus" title="Thylacosmilus">Thylacosmilus</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="1" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Thylacosmilus_NT_small.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Thylacosmilus atrox"><img alt="Thylacosmilus atrox" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Thylacosmilus_NT_small.jpg/140px-Thylacosmilus_NT_small.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="78" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Thylacosmilus_NT_small.jpg/210px-Thylacosmilus_NT_small.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Thylacosmilus_NT_small.jpg/280px-Thylacosmilus_NT_small.jpg 2x" data-file-width="949" data-file-height="528" /></a></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3"><div id="Polydolopimorphia263" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Polydolopimorphia" title="Polydolopimorphia">Polydolopimorphia</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Polydolopimorphia107" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="position:absolute;transform: translate(-50%,-50%) rotate(270deg);;"><a href="/wiki/Polydolopimorphia" title="Polydolopimorphia">Polydolopimorphia</a></div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Apeirodon" title="Apeirodon">Apeirodon</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bobbschaefferia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bobbschaefferia (page does not exist)">Bobbschaefferia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Caroloameghinia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Caroloameghinia (page does not exist)">Caroloameghinia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Carolocoutoia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Carolocoutoia (page does not exist)">Carolocoutoia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Guggenheimia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Guggenheimia (page does not exist)">Guggenheimia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gashternia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gashternia (page does not exist)">Gashternia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hatcheritherium&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hatcheritherium (page does not exist)">Hatcheritherium</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Palangania&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Palangania (page does not exist)">Palangania</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Procaroloameghinia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Procaroloameghinia (page does not exist)">Procaroloameghinia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Protodidelphis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Protodidelphis (page does not exist)">Protodidelphis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pujatodon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pujatodon (page does not exist)">Pujatodon</a></i>?</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Reigia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Reigia (page does not exist)">Reigia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robertbutleria&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robertbutleria (page does not exist)">Robertbutleria</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wamradolops&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wamradolops (page does not exist)">Wamradolops</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zeusdelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zeusdelphys (page does not exist)">Zeusdelphys</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bonapartheriiformes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bonapartheriiformes (page does not exist)">Bonapartheriiformes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bonapartheriidae&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bonapartheriidae (page does not exist)">Bonapartheriidae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Bonapartherium" title="Bonapartherium">Bonapartherium</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Epidolops" title="Epidolops">Epidolops</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Argyrolagidae&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Argyrolagidae (page does not exist)">Argyrolagidae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anargyrolagus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anargyrolagus (page does not exist)">Anargyrolagus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Argyrolagus" title="Argyrolagus">Argyrolagus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hondalagus" title="Hondalagus">Hondalagus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Microtragulus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Microtragulus (page does not exist)">Microtragulus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Proargyrolagus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Proargyrolagus (page does not exist)">Proargyrolagus</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chulpasiinae&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chulpasiinae (page does not exist)">Chulpasiinae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Chulpasia" title="Chulpasia">Chulpasia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thylacotinga&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thylacotinga (page does not exist)">Thylacotinga</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prepidolopidae&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Prepidolopidae (page does not exist)">Prepidolopidae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Incadolops&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Incadolops (page does not exist)">Incadolops</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Perrodelphys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Perrodelphys (page does not exist)">Perrodelphys</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prepidolops&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Prepidolops (page does not exist)">Prepidolops</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Punadolops&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Punadolops (page does not exist)">Punadolops</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seumandia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Seumandia (page does not exist)">Seumandia</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rosendolopidae&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rosendolopidae (page does not exist)">Rosendolopidae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Hondonadia" title="Hondonadia">Hondonadia</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rosendolops&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rosendolops (page does not exist)">Rosendolops</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Polydolopiformes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Polydolopiformes (page does not exist)">Polydolopiformes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Polydolopidae" class="mw-redirect" title="Polydolopidae">Polydolopidae</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Amphidolops&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Amphidolops (page does not exist)">Amphidolops</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Antarctodolops" title="Antarctodolops">Antarctodolops</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eudolops&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eudolops (page does not exist)">Eudolops</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eurydolops&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eurydolops (page does not exist)">Eurydolops</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hypodolops&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hypodolops (page does not exist)">Hypodolops</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kramadolops&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kramadolops (page does not exist)">Kramadolops</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Parabderites&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Parabderites (page does not exist)">Parabderites</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Polydolops&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Polydolops (page does not exist)">Polydolops</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pseudolops&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pseudolops (page does not exist)">Pseudolops</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sillustaniidae&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sillustaniidae (page does not exist)">Sillustaniidae</a></th><td 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href="https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Metatheria/">Metatheria</a></span></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Encyclopedia_of_Life" title="Encyclopedia of Life">EoL</a>: <span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://eol.org/pages/2844108">2844108</a></span></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Fauna_Europaea" title="Fauna Europaea">Fauna Europaea</a>: <span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:12614">12614</a></span></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Fauna_Europaea" title="Fauna Europaea">Fauna Europaea (new)</a>: <span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://fauna-eu.org/cdm_dataportal/taxon/26226554-59ee-472b-84eb-87709ad0d830">26226554-59ee-472b-84eb-87709ad0d830</a></span></span></li> <li><span style="white-space:nowrap;"><a 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