Asiatheriidae
Asiatheriidae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Clade: | Metatheria |
Clade: | Marsupialiformes |
Order: | †Asiadelphia |
Family: | †Asiatheriidae Trofimov and Szalay, 1994 |
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Asiatheriidae ("Asian opossums") is an family of Cretaceous metatherians in the order Asiadelphia. Different from the Ameridelphia, they lacked a prominent on the scaphoid, and possessed a more slender fibula. The is deeper in this group than the true marsupials.
Further reading[]
Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, Richard L. Cifelli, and Zhe-Xi Luo, Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs: Origins, Evolution, and Structure (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), 15, 451–452.
Categories:
- Prehistoric metatherians
- Coniacian genus first appearances
- Campanian genus extinctions
- Fossil taxa described in 1994
- Prehistoric mammal families
- Cretaceous mammal stubs