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''Khasia'' ("from Antin Khasa") is a fossil genus of marsupial in the family
Microbiotheriidae Microbiotheriidae is a family of australidelphian marsupials represented by only one extant species, the monito del monte, and a number of extinct species known from fossils in South America, Western Antarctica, and northeastern Australia. Mi ...
. It contains one known species, ''Khasia cordillerensis'', which is known from teeth found in the Santa Lucia Formation of Mizque,
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, where it lived alongside the
sparassodonts Sparassodonta (from Greek to tear, rend; and , gen. , ' tooth) is an extinct order of carnivorous metatherian mammals native to South America, related to modern marsupials. They were once considered to be true marsupials, but are now though ...
'' Allqokirus'', '' Mayulestes'' and '' Pucadelphys''.


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Microbiotheriidae Danian genera Prehistoric marsupial genera {{Paleo-marsupial-stub