Definition of Metatheria. Meaning of Metatheria. Synonyms of Metatheria

- Metatheria is a mammalian clade that includes all mammals more closely related to marsupials than to placentals. First proposed by Thomas Henry Huxley...
- plesiomorphies; they are now considered to belong to older branches of Metatheria that are only distantly related to modern opossums. Opossums probably...
- Marsupials constitute a clade stemming from the last common ancestor of extant Metatheria, which encomp****es all mammals more closely related to marsupials than...
- relationships among hathliacynids are also relatively unstable. Within Metatheria, a 2016 phylogenetic analysis group found that borhyaenids form a clade...
- phylogeny, and systematics of marsupials and their fossil relatives (Metatheria)". Journal of Mammalogy. 100 (3): 802–837. doi:10.1093/jmammal/gyz018...
- example, the term Metatheria (the name for the clade of marsupial mammals) uses the prefix meta- in the sense that the Metatheria occur on the tree of...
- Alphadontidae was a family of mammals belonging to the clade Metatheria, the group of mammals that includes modern-day marsupials. "Alphadontidae". paleobiodb...
- Asiatherium is an extinct genus of mammal, probably belonging to Metatheria. It lived during the Late Cretaceous, and its fossilized remains were discovered...
- including the earliest relatives of placentals & marsupials (Eutheria and Metatheria respectively), with the earliest crown group birds appearing towards to...
- This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Guyana. This list is derived from the IUCN Red List which lists species of mammals and includes those...