Evidence of early evolution of Australidelphia (Metatheria, Mammalia) in South America: phylogenetic relationships of the metatherians from the Late Palaeocene of Itaboraí (Brazil) based on teeth and petrosal bones

S. Ladaveze, and C. Muizon

2010

Article

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 159(3):746-784

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Taxa discussed in this work:

• Eometatheria
• Peramelia

Taxonomy:

• Pucadelphys belongs to Pucadelphydae - Ladaveze and Muizon (2010)
• Andinodelphys belongs to Pucadelphydae - Ladaveze and Muizon (2010)
• Pucadelphydae belongs to Metatheria - Ladaveze and Muizon (2010)
• Didelphis belongs to Didelphidae - Ladaveze and Muizon (2010)
• Paucituberculata belongs to Australidelphia - Ladaveze and Muizon (2010)
• Eometatheria belongs to Australidelphia - Ladaveze and Muizon (2010)
• Microbiotheria belongs to Eometatheria - Ladaveze and Muizon (2010)
• Dasyuromorphia belongs to Eometatheria - Ladaveze and Muizon (2010)
• Monodelphopsis belongs to Eometatheria - Ladaveze and Muizon (2010)
• Australidelphia belongs to Marsupialia - Ladaveze and Muizon (2010)
• Peramelia belongs to Australidelphia - Ladaveze and Muizon (2010)
• Echymipera belongs to Peramelia - Ladaveze and Muizon (2010)