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- Theria alongside Eutheria, which contains the placentals. Remains of metatherians have been found on all of Earth’s continents. Distinctive characteristics...
- Theria includes the eutherians (including the placental mammals) and the metatherians (including the marsupials) but excludes the egg-laying monotremes and...
- Thylacosmilus is an extinct genus of saber-toothed metatherian mammals that inhabited South America from the Late Miocene to Pliocene epochs. Though Thylacosmilus...
- called metatherians, probably split from those of placentals (eutherians) during the mid-Jur****ic period, though no fossil evidence of metatherians themselves...
- Luo and John Wible. While initially suggested to be the oldest known metatherian, later studies interpreted it as a eutherian. Only one fossil specimen...
- ὀδόντος [odous, odontos], tooth) is an extinct order of carnivorous metatherian mammals native to South America, related to modern marsupials. They were...
- Stagodontidae is an extinct family of carnivorous metatherian mammals that inhabited North America and Europe during the late Cretaceous, and possibly...
- years ago) and is at most no older than Oligocene in age. Many extinct metatherians, such as Alphadon, Peradectes, Herpetotherium, and Pucadelphys, were...
- "creodont" genera Machaeroides and Apataelurus; and two extinct lineages of metatherian mammals, the thylacosmilids of Spar****odonta, and deltatheroideans, which...
- Jur****ic or early Cretaceous; it is found in the eutherian Eomaia and the metatherian Sinodelphys, both dated to 125 million years ago. Epipubic bones, a feature...