Microbiotheria is an australidelphian marsupial order that encompasses two families, Microbiotheriidae and Woodburnodontidae, and is represented by only...

shrew opossums Superorder Australidelphia (Australian marsupials) Order Microbiotheria (one extant species) Family Microbiotheriidae: monitos del monte Order...

(Argentina and Chile). It is the only extant species in the ancient order Microbiotheria, and the sole New World representative of the superorder Australidelphia...

reached Australia via Antarctica in a single dispersal event after Microbiotheria split off. Phylogeny of living Australidelphia based on the work of...

The class Mammalia (mammals) is divided into two subclasses based on reproductive techniques: egg-laying mammals (yinotherians or monotremes - see also...

species of marsupials (orders Didelphimorphia, Paucituberculata, and Microbiotheria) are also carnivorous, as were some extinct members of the order Diprotodontia...

Microbiotheria...

There are currently 1,258 genera, 161 families, 27 orders, and around 5,937 recognized living species of mammal. Mammalian taxonomy is in constant flux...

proposed as the name for the Australian marsupials (Australidelphia minus Microbiotheria, of which Dromiciops is the only survivor), which in all probability...

member of its family and the only surviving member of an ancient order, Microbiotheria. It appears to be more closely related to Australian marsupials than...