Metatheria is a mammalian clade that includes all mammals more closely related to marsupials than to placentals. First proposed by Thomas Henry Huxley...
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plesiomorphies; they are now considered to belong to older branches of Metatheria that are only distantly related to modern opossums. Opossums probably...
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phylogeny, and systematics of marsupials and their fossil relatives (Metatheria)". Journal of Mammalogy. 100 (3): 802–837. doi:10.1093/jmammal/gyz018...
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first long-distance walker in Australia. Mammals portal Marsupial lawn Metatheria List of mammal genera List of recently extinct mammals List of prehistoric...
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by the platypus and several species of echidna. The names Prototheria, Metatheria, and Eutheria (loosely meaning "first beasts", "changed beasts", and "true...
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The class Mammalia (mammals) is divided into two subclasses based on reproductive techniques: egg-laying mammals (yinotherians or monotremes - see also...
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About 490 species of mammals are recorded in the United States. Unincorporated territories such as Puerto Rico, Guam or Northern Mariana Islands are not...
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Forasiepi, Analía M. (2009). "Osteology of Arctodictis sinclairi (Mammalia, Metatheria, Sparassodonta) and phylogeny of Cenozoic metatherian carnivores from...
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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...
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relationships among hathliacynids are also relatively unstable. Within Metatheria, a 2016 phylogenetic analysis group found that borhyaenids form a clade...
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