After Nowak, 1991, McKenna & Bell, 1997 and Dumont, Strait & Friscia, 2000
<==o Caenolestoidea Trouessant, 1898 sensu Osborn, 1910 (marsupial shrews; pussipäästäiset) |?- †Callomenus ligatus |?- †Cladoclinus Ameghino, 1894 [Synonym of †Palaeothentes Ameghino, 1887?] |?- †Epanorthus Ameghino, 1889 [Synonym of †Palaeothentes Ameghino, 1887?] |?- †Garzonia patagonia |?- †Palaeepanorthus Ameghino, 1902 [Synonym of †Palaeothentes Ameghino, 1887?] |-- †Carolopaulacoutoia itaboraiensis (Paula Couto, 1970) McKenna & Bell, 1997 [Sternbergia itaboraiensis Paula Couto, 1970, preoccupied] [Sternbergiidae Szalay, 1994 sensu McKenna & Bell, 1997] `--+-- Caenolestidae Trouessant, 1898 [Synonyms] (pussipäästäiset) `--+-- †Palaeothentidae Sinclair, 1906 [Epanorthidae Ameghino, 1889] `--o †Abderitidae Ameghino, 1889 |-- †Pitheculites minimus Ameghino, 1902 [Eomanodon multitubercularis Ameghino, 1902b; Micrabderites williamsi Simpson, 1932] `--o †Abderites Ameghino, 1887 [taxonomic history] |-- †A. meridionalis Ameghino, 1887 [taxonomic history] |-- †A. crispus Ameghino, 1902a `-- †A. pristinus Marshall, 1976?
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, 698. - Dumont, E. R., Strait, S. G. & Friscia, A. R., 2000: Abderitid marsupials from the Miocene of Patagonia: An assessment of form, function, and evolution.
–Journal of Paleontology: Vol. 74, #6, pp. 1161-1172 [doi: 10.1666/0022-3360(2000)074<1161:Amftmo>2.0.Co;2] - 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
Special thanks to:
Jos H. M. Dols, for gathering additional information and missing species.