Mikko's Phylogeny Archive

Notometatheria - South American and Australian Metatheres

After Rougier, Wible & Novacek, 1998

Alternative view after de Muizon et al., 1997

<==o Notometatheria (South American and Australian Metatheres; Etelä-Amerikan ja Australian pussieläimet)
   |?- †Ischyrodelphis castellanosi Paula Couto, 1952 [Ischyrodidelphis lapsus calami?]
   |?- †Xenodelphis doelloi  Paula Couto, 1962 [= †Gaylordia macrocynodonta Paula Couto, 1952 (McKenna & Bell, 1997)]
   |?- †Pascualdelphys fierroensis Flynn & Wyss, 1999
   |?- †Peradectidae Crochet, 1979 [Didelphidae: Peradectinae Crochet, 1979 sensu McKenna & Bell, 1997]
   |-- †Sparassodonta Ameghino, 1984 [Synonyms] (pussihyeenat; marsupial hyaenas)
   `--o Marsupialia Illeger, 1811 sensu lato (modern marsupials; nykypussieläimet)
      |?- Paucituberculata Ameghino, 1894 (pussipäästäismäiset pussieläimet; shrew-opossum-like marsupials)
      `--+-- †Hondadelphys fieldsi Marshall, 1976 [Hondadelphidae Marshall, Case & Woodburne, 1990]
         `--+-- †Pucadelphys andinus Marshall & de Muizon, 1988 [paraphyletic Pucadelphydea de Muizon, 1998]
            `--+-- †Andinodelphys cochabambensis Marshall & de Muizon, 1988 [paraphyletic Pucadelphydea de Muizon, 1998]
               `--o Marsupialia Illeger, 1811 sensu Rougier, Wible, & Novacek, 1998 (nykypussieläimet; modern marsupials)
                  |--+?- †Szalinia gracilis de Muizon & Cifelli, 2001
                  |  `-- Didelphioidea [Didelphimorphia Gill, 1872] (opossumimaiset pussieläimet; opossum-like marsupials)
                  `-- Australidelphia Szalay, 1982, in Archer, ed., 1982 [taxonomic history] (australian pussieläimet; australian marsupials)

<==o Notometatheria
   `--o Marsupialia sensu lato
      |?- Paucituberculata
      `--+-- †Hondadelphys
         `--o Marsupialia sensu stricto
            |--o Didelphimorphia
            |  |-- †Sparassodonta
            |  `--o Didelphioidea
            |     |-- †Andinodelphys
            |     |-- †Pucadelphys
            |     |?- †Szalinia
            |     `-- Didelphioidea
            `-- Australidelphia

Reference(s):

• 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.
• Ducrocq, S., Buffetaut, E., Buffetaut-Tong, H., Jaeger, J.-J., Jongkanjanasoontorn, Y. & Suteethorn, V., 1992: First fossil marsupial from South Asia.
  –Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 12, #3, pp. 395-399
• Flynn, J. J. & Wyss, A. R., 1999: New marsupials from the Eocene-Oligocene transition of the Andean Main Range, Chile.
  –Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 19, #3, pp. 533-549 [doi: 10.1080/02724634.1999.10011163]
• Ladeveze, S., de Muizon, C., Beck, R. M. D., Germain, D. & Cespedes-Paz, R., 2011: Earliest evidence of mammalian social behaviour in the basal Tertiary of Bolivia.
  –Nature: Vol. 474, #7349, pp. 83-86 [doi: 10.1038/nature09987]
• de Muizon, C. & Cifelli, R. L., 2001: A new basal "didelphoid" (Marsupialia, Mammalia) from the Early Paleocene of Tiupampa (Bolivia).
  –Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 21, #1, pp. 87-97
• de Muizon, C., Cifelli, R. L. & Céspedes Paz, R., 1997: The origin of the dog-like borhyaenoid marsupials of South America.
  –Nature: Vol. 389, 2 October, pp. 486-489
• McKenna, M. C. & Bell, S. K., (eds.) 1997: Classification of mammals – above the species level.
  –Columbia University Press, New York, 1997, xii-631
• Rothecker, J. & Storer, J. E., 1996: The marsupials of the Lac Pelletier Lower Fauna, Middle Eocene (Duchesnean) of Saskatschewan.
  –Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 16, #4, pp. 770-774
• Rougier, G. W., Wible, J. R. & Novacek, M. J., 1998: Implications of Deltatheridium speciments for early marsupial history.
  –Nature: Vol. 396, 3 December, pp. 459-463
• Storch, G. & Qui, Z., 2002: First Neogene marsupial from China.
  –Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 22, #1, pp. 179-181
• Thewissen, J. G. M., Williams, E. M. & Hussain, S. T., 2001: Eocene mammals faunas from Northern Indo-Pakistan.
  –Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 21, #2, pp. 347-366
• Zonneveld, J.-P., Gunnell, G. F. & Bartels, W. S., 2000: Early Eocene fossil vertebrates from the southwestern Green River basin, Lincoln and Uinta Counties, Wyoming.
  –Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 20, #2, pp. 369-386

Special thanks to:

Jos H. M. Dols, for gathering additional information and missing species.