Metatheria is a mammalian clade that includes all mammals more closely related to marsupials than to placentals. First proposed by Thomas Henry Huxley...

relationships among hathliacynids are also relatively unstable. Within Metatheria, a 2016 phylogenetic analysis group found that borhyaenids form a clade...

Forasiepi, Analía M. (2009). "Osteology of Arctodictis sinclairi (Mammalia, Metatheria, Sparassodonta) and phylogeny of Cenozoic metatherian carnivores from...

phylogeny, and systematics of marsupials and their fossil relatives (Metatheria)". Journal of Mammalogy. 100 (3): 802–837. doi:10.1093/jmammal/gyz018...

Forasiepi, Analía M. (2009). "Osteology of Arctodictis sinclairi (Mammalia, Metatheria, Sparassodonta) and phylogeny of Cenozoic metatherian carnivores from...

plesiomorphies and are now considered to represent older branches of Metatheria only distantly related to modern opossums. Opossums probably originated...

first long-distance walker in Australia. Mammals portal Marsupial lawn Metatheria List of mammal genera List of recently extinct mammals List of prehistoric...

About 490 species of mammals are recorded in the United States. Unincorporated territories such as Puerto Rico, Guam or Northern Mariana Islands are not...

by the platypus and several species of echidna. The names Prototheria, Metatheria, and Eutheria (loosely meaning "first beasts", "changed beasts", and "true...

example, the term Metatheria (the name for the clade of marsupial mammals) uses the prefix meta- in the sense that the Metatheria occur on the tree of...