Mikko's Phylogeny Archive

PanicMain Groups of Non-Therian Mammals

  Main Groups of Metatherian Mammals  

 

    METATHERIA [Marsupialia sensu lato] (marsupials and relatives; pussieläinmäiset nisäkkäät)
        †Deltatheroida Kielan-Jaworowska, 1982
        †BoreometatheriaAsiadephia Trofinov & Szalay, 1994
            †Ameridelphia Szalay, in Archer, ed., 1982
                †Alphadontia Archer, 1984
        NotometatheriaSparassodonta Ameghino, 1884 [Borhyaenoidea Simpson, 1930] (marsupial hyaenas; pussihyeenat)
            Marsupialia (marsupials; pussieläimet)
                Paucituberculata (Marsupial shrews; pussipäästäiset)
                Didelphioidea (South American opossums; opossumit)
                Australidelphia
                    Microbiotheria (Woolly opossums; villakarvapussipäästäise)
                    Notorycteromorpha Kirsch, in Hunsaker, 1977
                    Dasyuromorphia (Australian marsupial carnivores; Australian pussipedot)
                    SyndactyliSyndactyli Gill, 1871 [Syndactyla Wood Jones, 1924] (yhdysvarpaiset)
                        Peramelia
                        Diprotodonta

Reference(s):

Burkitt, J. H., 1995: Mammals: A world listing of living and extinct species.
–iNet: Cougar Hill Sanctuary Association: Online Library: mammals.pdf http://www.cougarhillweb.org/resource.html/

Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
–W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698

Carroll, R. L., 1988: Appendix. 594-648
in Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
–W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698

McKenna, M. C. & Bell, S. K., (eds.) 1997: Classification of mammals – above the species level.
–Columbia University Press, New York, 1997, xii-631

Nowak, R. M., 1991: Walker's Mammals of the World; Part 1.
–The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1991, xlviii-642-lxiii

Nowak, R. M., 1991: Walker's mammals of the World; Part 2.
–The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1991, xii-643-1629

 

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