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South America's
monito del
monte (a microbiothere, the only New
World australidelphian). This
progenitor may have
rafted across the widening, but
still narrow...
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Microbiotheria is an
australidelphian marsupial order that encomp****es two families,
Microbiotheriidae and Woodburnodontidae, and is
represented by only...
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years ago (mya).
Djarthia had been
identified as the
earliest known australidelphian, and this
research suggested that the
monito del
monte was the last...
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Microbiotheriidae is a
family of
australidelphian marsupials represented by only one
extant species, the
monito del monte, and a
number of
extinct species...
- as the
sister taxon to a dasyuromorph-peramelian clade,
within the
Australidelphian radiation. Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds...
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Australidelphians...
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American marsupials (Ameridelphia); however, it is the most
basal australidelphian,
meaning that this
superorder arose in
South America and then dis****d...
- of
isolated tarsals of
Djarthia murgonensis with an
extant australidelphian marsupial and an
extant non-
australidelphian (‘ameridelphian’) marsupial...
- basal,
implying that the group's
ancestry was in the Old World.
Extant australidelphian marsupials constitute about 240
species in
Australasia and one species...
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found that it was
likely a
crown group marsupial, and
probably an
australidelphian, but its
unusual morphology made its
precise placement uncertain. Archer...
