primate
Primates are a diverse order (biology), order of mammals. They are divided into the Strepsirrhini, strepsirrhines, which include the lemurs, galagos, and lorisids, and the Haplorhini, haplorhines, which include the Tarsiiformes, tarsiers and ...
species, see:
list of fossil primates
This is a list of fossil primates—extinct primates for which a fossil record exists. Primates are generally thought to have evolved from a small, unspecialized mammal, which probably fed on insects and fruits. However, the precise source of the ...
.Mikko's Phylogeny Archiv
Mammaliaformes
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*Genus †''
Adelobasileus
''Adelobasileus'' is a genus of mammaliamorph cynodonts from the Late Triassic (Carnian), about 225 million years ago. It is known only from a partial skull recovered from the Tecovas Formation in western Texas, southern United States, referre ...
'' Lucas & Hunt 1990
*Genus †''
Bocaconodon
''Bocaconodon'' (meaning "La Boca conical tooth") is an early mammaliaform genus that lived during the Pliensbachian (Early Jurassic) of Mexico. The type and only species, ''Bocaconodon tamaulipensis'' (referring to Tamaulipas, where the holotype ...
'' Montellano, Hopson & Clark 2008
*Genus †''
Delsatia
''Delsatia'' is an early mammaliaform genus that lived during the Late Triassic and has been found in France. The type species, ''D. rhupotopi'', was named in 1997.Sigogneau-Russell D. & Godefroit P., 1997 - A primitive docodont (Mammalia) from ...
Hadrocodium
''Hadrocodium wui'' is an extinct mammaliaform that lived during the Sinemurian stage of the Early Jurassic approximately in the Lufeng Formation of the Lufeng Basin in what is now the Yunnan province in south-western China
(, paleocoordinates ) ...
'' Luo, Crompton & Sun 2001
*Genus †''
Fruitafossor
''Fruitafossor'' was a termite-eating mammal endemic to North America during the Late Jurassic epoch (around 150 mya).
The description is based on a complete skeleton of a chipmunk-sized animal.
It was discovered on March 31, 2005, in Fruita, ...
Dinnetherium
''Dinnetherium'' is an extinct genus of morganucodont mammaliaform that is part of the monotypic order Dinnetheria and is also part of the monotypic family Dinnetheriidae.A. O. Averianov and A. V. Lopatin. 2011. Phylogeny of Triconodonts and Sy ...
Sinoconodon
''Sinoconodon'' is an extinct genus of mammaliamorphs that appears in the fossil record of the Lufeng Formation of China in the Sinemurian stage of the Early Jurassic period, about 193 million years ago. While sharing many plesiomorphic traits w ...
'' Patterson & Olson 1961
Order †
Morganucodonta
Morganucodonta (" Glamorgan teeth") is an extinct order of basal Mammaliaformes, a group including crown-group mammals (Mammalia) and their close relatives. Their remains have been found in Southern Africa, Western Europe, North America, Indi ...
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*Genus †''
Bridetherium
''Bridetherium'' is an extinct genus of morganucodontan from Early Jurassic deposits of southern Wales, United Kingdom. ''Bridetherium'' is known from some isolated upper and lower molariform. It was collected in the Pant Quarry, Vale of Glamor ...
'' Clemens 2011
*Genus †''
Hallautherium
''Hallautherium'' is an extinct genus of morganucodont mammaliaforms from the Late Triassic of Europe. The type species ''H. schalchi'' is known from the Klettgau Formation
The Klettgau Formation is a geological formation in Switzerland. It is L ...
'' Clemens 1980
*Genus †''
Paceyodon
''Paceyodon'' is an extinct genus of morganucodontan from Early Jurassic deposits of southern Wales, United Kingdom. ''Paceyodon'' is known from an isolated molariform that is significantly larger than any morganucodontan molariform yet discove ...
'' Clemens 2011
*Genus †''
Purbeckodon
''Purbeckodon'' is an extinct genus of mammaliaforms, possibly belonging to Morganucodonta, that is known from Early Cretaceous deposits of southeastern Dorset, England. It was collected in the Purbeck Limestone Group of Dorset. It was first na ...
'' Butler et al. 2012
*Genus †''
Rosierodon
''Rosierodon'' is an extinct genus of morganucodont mammaliaforms from the Late Triassic of France. It contains a single species, ''Rosierodon anceps'', which was named in 2015 based on several isolated lower molariforms discovered in Saint-Nico ...
'' Debuysschere, Gherrbrant & Allain 2014
*Family † Megazostrodontidae Cow 1986 sensu Kielan-Jaworowska, Cifelli & Luo 2004
**Genus †''
Wareolestes
''Wareolestes rex'' ("Ware's Brigand king") is a mammaliaform from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) rocks of England and Scotland. It was originally known from isolated teeth from England, before a more complete jaw with teeth was found in the Ki ...
Megazostrodon
''Megazostrodon'' is an extinct genus of basal mammaliaforms belonging to the order Morganucodonta. It is approximately 200 million years old.
Indotherium
''Indotherium'' is an extinct genus of mammaliaforms that lived in what is now India during the Early Jurassic. It contains one species, ''I. pranhitai'', which is known from two upper molar teeth found in the Kota Formation of Telangana
Te ...
'' Yadagiri 1984 non Kretzoi 1942
**Genus †'' Indozostrodon'' Datta & Das 2001
**Genus †'' Helvetiodon'' Clemens 1980
**Genus †''
Erythrotherium
''Erythrotherium'' (meaning "red beast") is an extinct genus of basal mammaliaforms from the Late Triassic to Lower Jurassic. It is related to ''Morganucodon''. Only one species is recorded, ''Erythrotherium parringtoni'', from Red Beds, Stormber ...
'' Crompton 1964
**Genus †''
Eozostrodon
''Eozostrodon'' is an extinct morganucodont mammaliaform. It lived during the Rhaetian stage of the Late Triassic. ''Eozostrodon'' is known from disarticulated bones from Wales and South West England and estimated to have been less than in head ...
'' Parrington 1941
**Genus †''
Morganucodon
''Morganucodon'' (" Glamorgan tooth") is an early mammaliaform genus that lived from the Late Triassic to the Middle Jurassic. It first appeared about 205 million years ago. Unlike many other early mammaliaforms, ''Morganucodon'' is well represen ...
'' Kühne 1949
Order †
Docodonta
Docodonta is an order of extinct mammaliaforms that lived during the Mesozoic, from the Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous. They are distinguished from other early mammaliaforms by their relatively complex molar teeth, from which the order gets ...
Middle
Middle or The Middle may refer to:
* Centre (geometry), the point equally distant from the outer limits.
Places
* Middle (sheading), a subdivision of the Isle of Man
* Middle Bay (disambiguation)
* Middle Brook (disambiguation)
* Middle Creek (d ...
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Late Jurassic
The Late Jurassic is the third epoch of the Jurassic Period, and it spans the geologic time from 163.5 ± 1.0 to 145.0 ± 0.8 million years ago (Ma), which is preserved in Upper Jurassic strata.Owen 1987.
In European lithostratigraphy, the ...
*Family †
Docodontidae
Docodonta is an order of extinct mammaliaforms that lived during the Mesozoic, from the Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous. They are distinguished from other early mammaliaforms by their relatively complex molar teeth, from which the order ge ...
**Genus †''
Agilodocodon
''Agilodocodon'' was a genus of shrew-sized docodont from the Middle Jurassic, believed to be the earliest known tree-climbing mammaliaform. It contains one species, ''A. scansorius''.
Appearance
''Agilodocodon'' measured approximately from he ...
'' Meng et al. 2015
**Genus †''
Docofossor
''Docofossor'' is an extinct mammaliaform (a docodont) from the Jurassic period. Its remains have been recovered in China from 160 million years old rocks. It appears to have been the earliest-known subterranean mammaliaform, with adaptations rem ...
'' Luo et al. 2015
**Genus †''
Gondtherium
''Gondtherium'' is a genus of extinct mammaliaform from the Kota Formation in India. It was considered a docodontan by those who described it, but it remains unclear if this is the case.
''Gondtherium'' was found in the Kota Formation, which i ...
Haldanodon
''Haldanodon'' is an extinct docodont mammaliaform which lived in the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian, about 145 million years ago). Its fossil remains have been found in Portugal, in the well-known fossil locality of Guimarota, which is in the Al ...
'' Kühne & Krusat 1972 sensu Sigoneau-Russell 2003
**Genus †''
Borealestes
''Borealestes'' was a genus of docodontan from the Middle Jurassic of Britain, first discovered on the Isle of Skye near the village of Elgol. It was the earliest mammaliaform from the Mesozoic found and named in Scotland. A second species and ...
'' Waldman & Savage 1972
**Genus †'' Dsugarodon'' Pfretzschner et al. 2005 'Acuodulodon'' Hu, Meng & Clark 2007">Acuodulodon.html" ;"title="'Acuodulodon">'Acuodulodon'' Hu, Meng & Clark 2007**Genus †''Castorocauda'' Ji et al. 2006
**Genus †''Simpsonodon'' Kermack et al. 1987
**Genus †''Krusatodon'' Sigogneau-Russell 2003
**Genus †''Hutegotherium'' Averianov et al. 2010
**Genus †'' Tashkumyrodon'' Martin & Averianov 2004
**Genus †''
Tegotherium
''Tegotherium'' is an extinct mammaliaform from the Late Jurassic of East Asia. The type species ''T. gubini'' is known from the Shar Teeg Beds of Mongolia and an indeterminate species is also known from the Late Jurassic Qigu Formation of Ch ...
'' Tatarinov 1994
**Genus †''
Sibirotherium
''Sibirotherium'' is an extinct genus of docodont mammaliaform. It is known from only a single named species, ''Sibirotherium rossicum'', known from jaw fragments and teeth found in the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) aged Ilek Formation in western Si ...
Reigitherium
''Reigitherium'' was a mammal that lived during the Late Cretaceous, in the (Late Campanian-Maastrichtian). Its fossils have been found in the Los Alamitos and the La Colonia Formations of Argentina.
Description
The original specimen of ''Reig ...
'' Bonaparte 1990
**Genus †''
Peraiocynodon
''Peraiocynodon'' is an extinct mammaliaform from the order Docodonta, found in the Middle Jurassic rocks of the United Kingdom. It is only known from isolated molar teeth found in the mammal bed at Kirtlington cement quarry in Oxfordshire, Engla ...
'' Simpson 1928
**Genus †''
Docodon
''Docodon'' (meaning 'beam tooth') was a mammaliaform from the Late Jurassic of western North America. It was the first docodontan cynodont to be named.
Description
''Docodon'' was the first docodontan cynodont found and named, and later gave ...
Dryolestes
''Dryolestes'' is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic mammal from the Morrison Formation and the Alcobaça Formation of Portugal. The type species ''Dryolestes priscus'' is present in stratigraphic zones 2, 5, and 6.Foster, J. (2007). "Appendix." ' ...
Woutersia
''Woutersia'' was a Triassic genus of ' symmetrodont' and the only representative of the family Woutersiidae. It was originally classified as a kuehneotheriid, but it has been suggested that it may be related to Docodonta. Remains of ''W. mirabil ...
'' Sigogneau-Russell 1983b
*Family †
Kuehneotheriidae
Kuehneotheriidae is an extinct family of mammaliaforms traditionally placed within ' Symmetrodonta', though now generally considered more basal than true symmetrodonts. All members of Kuehneotheriidae which have been found so far are represented ...
Kermack, Kermack & Musset 1968
**Genus †''
Kuehneotherium
''Kuehneotherium'' is an early mammaliaform genus, previously considered a holothere, that lived during the Late Triassic-Early Jurassic Epochs and is characterized by reversed-triangle pattern of molar cusps. Although many fossils have been f ...
Eutriconodonta
Eutriconodonta is an order of early mammals. Eutriconodonts existed in Asia, Africa, Europe, North and South America during the Jurassic and the Cretaceous periods. The order was named by Kermack ''et al.'' in 1973 as a replacement name for the p ...
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Early Jurassic
The Early Jurassic Epoch (in chronostratigraphy corresponding to the Lower Jurassic Series) is the earliest of three epochs of the Jurassic Period. The Early Jurassic starts immediately after the Triassic-Jurassic extinction event, 201.3 Ma  ...
–
Late Cretaceous
The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale. Rock strata from this epoch form the Upper Cretaceous Series. The Cretaceous is named after ''creta'', ...
*Genus ?†''
Dyskritodon
''Dyskritodon'' ("tooth of unknown origin", from Greek δυσκρίτος, "''dyskritos''"Sigogneau-Russell, D. (1995) Two possibly aquatic triconodont mammals from the Early Cretaceous of Morocco. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 40(2), p.149-162 ...
'' Sigogneau-Russell 1995
*Family †
Amphidontidae
The Amphidontidae are a family of extinct mammals from the Early Cretaceous, belonging to the triconodonts. It contains most of the species previously belonged to Amphilestidae.
Phylogeny
Cladogram after Marisol Montellano, James A. Hopson, ...
Simpson 1925
**Genus †''
Acinacodus
''Acinacodus'' is an extinct genus of amphidontid "eutriconodont" which existed in Shestakovo 1 locality in Western Siberia, Russia during the early Cretaceous period. It was described by A. V. Lopatin, E. N. Maschenko and A. O. Averianov in 20 ...
Gobiodon
''Gobiodon'' is a genus of gobies also known as coral gobies or "clown gobies" (which can also mean the related genus ''Microgobius''). Generally, coral gobies, unlike the rest of the family Gobiidae, are not burrowers, but instead prefer to inh ...
Condorodon
''Condorodon'' is a genus of extinct mammals from the Lower Jurassic Cañadón Asfalto Formation of the Cañadón Asfalto Basin in Patagonia, Argentina. The type species is ''C. spanios'', described by Gaetano and Rougier in 2012.
Classificati ...
Amphitherium
''Amphitherium'' is an extinct genus of stem cladotherian mammal that lived during the Middle Jurassic of England. It was one of the first Mesozoic mammals ever described. A recent phylogenetic study found it to be the sister taxon of ''Palaeox ...
'' Owen 1845 non von Meyer non de Blainville 1838]
**Genus †''Phascolotherium'' Owen 1838 [''Didelphys (mammal), Didelphys'' Broderip 1828; '' Thylacotherium'' Valenciennes 1838]
**Genus †'' Tendagurodon'' Heinrich 1998
*Family
Jeholodentidae
The family Jeholodentidae is a possible eutriconodont family that was present in China around 125 million years ago during the time of the dinosaurs. There are currently two genera assigned to the family, ''Yanoconodon'' and ''Jeholodens''.
H ...
Luo et al. 2007
**Genus †''
Jeholodens
''Jeholodens'' was a primitive mammal belonging to the order Eutriconodonta, and which lived in present-day China during the Middle Cretaceous about 125 million years ago.
Only one specimen has been formally described. This specimen (the holoty ...
'' Luo, Chen, Li & Chen 2007
**Genus †''
Yanoconodon
''Yanoconodon'' is a monotypic genus of extinct early mammal whose representative species ''Yanoconodon allini'' lived during the Mesozoic in what is now China. The holotype fossil of ''Yanoconodon'' was excavated in the Yan Mountains about 30 ...
'' Ji, Luo & Ji 1999
*Family †
Klameliidae
The Klameliidae is a family of extinct mammals from the Jurassic
The Jurassic ( ) is a Geological period, geologic period and System (stratigraphy), stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) ...
Martin & Averianov 2007
**Genus †'' Ferganodon'' Thomas & Averianov 2006
**Genus †'' Klamelia'' Chow & Rich 1984
*Family †
Gobiconodontidae
Gobiconodontidae is a family of extinct mammals that ranged from the mid-Jurassic to the early Late Cretaceous, though most common during the Early Cretaceous. The Gobiconodontids form a diverse lineage of carnivorous non-therian mammals, and inc ...
Chow & Rich 1984 sensu Luo, Kielan-Jaworowska & Cifelli 2002
**Genus †'' Huasteconodon'' Montellano, Hopson & Clark 2008
**Genus †'' Meemannodon'' Meng et al. 2005
**Genus †''
Spinolestes
''Spinolestes'' is an extinct mammal genus from the Early Cretaceous of Spain. A gobiconodontid eutriconodont, it is notable for the remarkable degree of preservation, offering profound insights to the biology of non-therian mammals.Thomas Mart ...
'' Martin et al. 2015
**Genus †'' Hangjinia'' Godefroit & Guo 1999
**Genus †''
Gobiconodon
''Gobiconodon'' is an extinct genus of carnivorous mammal from the Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous. It weighed , had a skull of in length, and had in presacral body length. It was one of the largest mammals known from the Mesozoic. Like ...
'' Trofimov 1978 sensu Kielen-Jaworowsky & Dashzeveg 1998 'Guchinodon'' Trofimov 1978; ''Guchinodon">Guchinodon.html" ;"title="'Guchinodon">'Guchinodon'' Trofimov 1978; ''Guchinodon'' Trofomiv 1974 nomen nudum]
**Genus †''Repenomamus'' Li et al. 2001
*Clade †Volaticotheria Meng et al. 2006 emend. Meng et al. 2007
**Genus †''Volaticotherium'' Meng et al. 2006 emend. Meng et al. 2007
**Genus †''
Ichthyoconodon
''Ichthyoconodon'' is an extinct genus of eutriconodont mammal from the Lower Cretaceous of Morocco. It is notable for having been found in a unique marine location, and the shape of its teeth suggests an unusual, potentially fish-eating ecolo ...
'' Sigogneau-Russell 1995
**Genus †''
Argentoconodon
''Argentoconodon'' (meaning " Argentina cone tooth") is an extinct genus of theriimorph mammal from the Cañadón Asfalto Formation of the Cañadón Asfalto Basin in Patagonia. When originally described, it was known only from a single molar ...
'' Rougier et al. 2007
**Genus †''
Jugulator
''Jugulator'' is the thirteenth studio album by English heavy metal band Judas Priest. It was released in Japan on 16 October 1997 and the rest of the world on 28 October 1997. It was their first studio album since '' Painkiller'' in 1990 a ...
'' Cifelli & Madsen 1998
**Genus †''
Triconolestes
''Triconolestes'' is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic eutriconodont mammal from the Morrison Formation
The Morrison Formation is a distinctive sequence of Late Jurassic, Upper Jurassic sedimentary rock found in the western United States whi ...
'' Engelmann & Callison 1998
*Family †
Triconodontidae
Triconodontidae is an extinct family of small, carnivorous mammals belonging to the order Eutriconodonta, endemic to what would become Asia, Europe, North America and probably also Africa and South America during the Jurassic through Cretaceous ...
Priacodon
''Priacodon'' is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic eutriconodont mammal from the Alcobaça Formation of Portugal and the Morrison Formation of the midwestern United States.
It is present in stratigraphic zones 4–6 of the latter.Foster, J. (20 ...
'' Marsh 1887 'Tinodon''">Tinodon.html" ;"title="'Tinodon">'Tinodon''**Subfamily †Triconodontinae">Tinodon">'Tinodon<_a>''.html" ;"title="Tinodon.html" ;"title="'Tinodon">'Tinodon''">Tinodon.html" ;"title="'Tinodon">'Tinodon''**Subfamily †Triconodontinae Marsh 1887 non Hay 1902
***Genus †''Triconodon'' Owen 1859 [''Triacanthodon'' Owen 1871]
***Genus †''Trioracodon'' Simpson 1928 non Owen 1871
**Subfamily †Alticonodontinae Fox 1976
***Genus †''
Meiconodon
''Meiconodon'' is an extinct genus of alticonodontine triconodontid which existed in China during the early Cretaceous period (Aptian/ Albian age). It was described by Nao Kusuhashi, Yaoming Hu, Yuanqing Wang, Satoshi Hirasawa and Hiroshige Ma ...
'' Kusuhashi et al. 2009
***Genus †'' Arundelconodon'' Cifelli et al. 1999
***Genus †''
Astroconodon
''Astroconodon'' is an extinct genus of mammal from the Cretaceous of North America. Part of Eutriconodonta, it was a small sized predator, either a terrestrial insectivore and carnivore, or a semi-aquatic piscivore.
It is the first Cretaceous ...
'' Patterson 1951
***Genus †''
Alticonodon
''Alticonodon'' is a genus of extinct mammal from the Late Cretaceous of North America. It is the geologically youngest known eutriconodont, and is a fairly more specialised animal than earlier representatives of this clade.
Description
''Altic ...
Symmetrodonta
Symmetrodonta is a group of Mesozoic mammals and mammal-like synapsids characterized by the triangular aspect of the molars when viewed from above, and the absence of a well-developed talonid. The traditional group of 'symmetrodonts' ranges in a ...
Cladotheria
Cladotheria is a clade (sometimes ranked as a legion) of mammals. It contains modern therian mammals (marsupials and placentals) and several extinct groups, such as the dryolestoids, amphitheriids and peramurids. The clade was named in 19 ...
Nanolestes
''Nanolestes'' is an extinct genus of mammals in the order Amphitheriida from the Late Jurassic of Eurasia. Two species, ''N. krusati'' and ''N. drescherae'' are known from the Alcobaça Formation in Portugal. Another species, ''N. mackennai'', ...
Itatodon
''Itatodon'' is an extinct genus of primitive mammal known from the Bathonian aged Itat Formation of Russia. The genus is named after the formation, with the species being named after Leonid Petrovich Tatarinov who described the first docodont
f ...
'' Lopatin & Averianov 2005
**Genus †''
Shuotherium
''Shuotherium'' is a fossil mammal known from Middle-Late Jurassic of the Forest Marble Formation of England,Sigogneau−Russell, D. 1998. Discovery of a Late Jurassic Chinese mammal
in the upper Bathonian of England. Comptes Rendus de l’Acad� ...
'' Chow & Rich 1982
**Genus †''
Paritatodon
''Paritatodon'' is an extinct mammal which existed in Kyrgyzstan and England during the Jurassic period. It was originally the holotype specimen of '' Shuotherium kermacki'', but Martin and Averianov (2010) argued that it resembled the genus '' ...
'' Martin & Averianov 2010
**Genus †''
Pseudotribos
''Pseudotribos'' ("false chewing") is an extinct genus of mammal that lived in Northern China during the Middle Jurassic some , possibly more closely related to monotremes than to theria (placental and marsupial mammals), although other studie ...
'' Luo, Ji & Yuan 2007
Order †
Ausktribosphenida
Ausktribosphenidae is an extinct family of australosphenidan mammals from the Early Cretaceous of Australia and mid Cretaceous of South America.
Classification and taxonomy
Ausktribosphenidae is closely related to monotremes and hence the two f ...
*Family †
Ausktribosphenidae
Ausktribosphenidae is an extinct family of australosphenidan mammals from the Early Cretaceous of Australia and mid Cretaceous of South America.
Classification and taxonomy
Ausktribosphenidae is closely related to monotremes and hence the two f ...
Rich et al. 1997
**Genus †''
Bishops
A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of Episcopal polity, authority and oversight in a religious institution.
In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or offic ...
'' Rich et al. 2001
**Genus †''
Ausktribosphenos
''Ausktribosphenos'' is an extinct genus of mammals from Early Cretaceous of Australia. The only recorded species, ''Ausktribosphenos nyktos'', was found on Flat Rocks, Victoria
Victoria most commonly refers to:
* Victoria (Australia), a sta ...
Henosferidae
Henosferidae (also spelled "Henospheridae") is an extinct family of Australosphenida, native to Gondwana during the Middle Jurassic. Its defined as a clade including the most recent common ancestor of ''Henosferus'' and ''Asfaltomylos
''Asfal ...
Rougier et al. 2007
**Genus †''
Henosferus
''Henosferus'' is an extinct genus of australosphenidan mammal from Lower Jurassic of Argentina. The only recorded species, ''Henosferus molus'', was found in the Cañadón Asfalto Formation of the Cañadón Asfalto Basin in Chubut Province
C ...
'' Rougier et al. 2007
**Genus †''
Asfaltomylos
''Asfaltomylos'' is an extinct genus of the primitive mammal subclass Australosphenida from the Jurassic of Argentina. The type and only species is ''Asfaltomylos patagonicus'', recovered from and named after the Cañadón Asfalto Formation, Cañ ...
'' Rauhut et al. 2002
**Genus †'' Ambondro'' Flynn et al. 1999
Middle Cretaceous
The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era, as well as the longest. At around 79 million years, it is the longest geological period of th ...
–
Recent
The Holocene ( ) is the current geological epoch. It began approximately 11,650 cal years Before Present (), after the Last Glacial Period, which concluded with the Holocene glacial retreat. The Holocene and the preceding Pleistocene togethe ...
*Genus †''
Teinolophos
''Teinolophos'' is a prehistoric species of monotreme, or egg-laying mammal, from the Teinolophidae. It is known from four specimens, each consisting of a partial lower jawbone collected from the Wonthaggi Formation at Flat Rocks, Victoria, ...
'' Rich et al. 1999
*Genus †''
Kryoryctes
''Kryoryctes'' is a genus of prehistoric monotreme mammal from the Early Cretaceous (Albian) Eumeralla Formation of Victoria, Australia from the Otway Group of Dinosaur Cove. It is known only from a partial right humerus, estimated at 106 m ...
'' Pridmore et al. 2005
*Family † Kollikodontidae Flannery et al. 1995
**Genus †''
Kollikodon
''Kollikodon'' is an extinct species of mammal, it is usually considered to be a member of Australosphenida and closely allied with monotremes, but is alternatively suggested to be a haramiyidan. It is known only from an opalised dentary fragment ...
'' Flannery et al. 1995
*Family
Ornithorhynchidae
The Ornithorhynchidae are one of the two extant families in the order Monotremata, and contain the platypus and its extinct relatives. The other family is the Tachyglossidae, or echidnas. Within the Ornithorhynchidae are the genera '' Monotrem ...
Monotrematum
''Monotrematum sudamericanum'' is an extinct monotreme species from the Paleocene ( Peligran) Salamanca Formation in Patagonia, Argentina. It is the only monotreme found outside Oceania.
Taxonomy
A species described in 1992 and assigned to a ne ...
'' Pascual et al. 1992
**Genus †''
Steropodon
''Steropodon'' is a genus of prehistoric monotreme, or egg-laying mammal. It contains a single species, ''Steropodon galmani'', that lived about 105 to 93.3 million years ago (mya) in the Early to Late Cretaceous period. It is one of the oldest ...
'' Archer et al. 1985
**Genus †''
Obdurodon
''Obdurodon'' is a genus of extinct platypus-like Australian monotreme which lived from the Late Oligocene to the Late Miocene. Three species have been described in the genus, the type species ''Obdurodon insignis'', plus ''Obdurodon dicksoni'' a ...
Zaglossus
The long-beaked echidnas (genus ''Zaglossus'') make up one of the two extant genera of echidnas, spiny monotremes that live in New Guinea; the other being the short-beaked echidna. There are three living species and one extinct species in this ge ...
Allotheria
Allotheria (meaning "other beasts", from the Greek , '–other and , '–wild animal) is an extinct branch of successful Mesozoic mammals. The most important characteristic was the presence of lower molariform teeth equipped with two longitudi ...
Order †
Haramiyida
Haramiyida ("thief" from Arabic الحرامية (al ḥarāmiyah), "thief, bandit") is a possibly polyphyletic order of mammaliaform cynodonts or mammals of controversial taxonomic affinites. Their teeth, which are by far the most common remain ...
Haramiyavia
''Haramiyavia'' ("thief grandmother" from Arabic الحرامية (al ḥarāmiyah), "thief, ''Haramiya''" + Latin avia, "grandmother") is a genus of synapsid in the clade Haramiyida that existed about 200 million years ago in the Rhaetian stag ...
'' Jenkins et al. 1997
*Family † Eleutherodontidae Kermack et al. 1998 Zheng et al. 2013; Euharamiyida Bi et al. 2014; Eleutherodontida Kermack et al. 1998">rboroharamiyidae Zheng et al. 2013; Euharamiyida Bi et al. 2014; Eleutherodontida Kermack et al. 1998**Genus †''
Megaconus
''Megaconus'' is an extinct genus of allotherian mammal from the Middle Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation of Inner Mongolia, China. The type and only species, ''Megaconus mammaliaformis'' was first described in the journal ''Nature'' in 2013. ''Mega ...
'' Zhou et al. 2013
**Genus †''
Shenshou
''Shenshou'' is a genus of haramiyidan dating from the Oxfordian stage of the Late Jurassic, approximately 160 million years ago. Fossils were recovered from the Tiaojishan Formation in the Liaoning province of China.
Etymology
The generic n ...
'' Bi et al. 2014
**Genus †''
Arboroharamiya
''Arboroharamiya'' ("tree thief" from Latin arbor, "tree" + Arabic الحرامية (al ḥarāmiyah), "thief, '' Haramiya''") is an extinct genus of early mammal (or possibly a non-mammalian mammaliaform) from the Middle Jurassic Tiaojishan For ...
'' Zheng et al. 2013
**Genus †''
Eleutherodon
''Kermackodon'' is an extinct genus of allotherian mammal, known from the Middle Jurassic of England. It combines features of multituberculates with those of euharamyidans. The remains of type species, ''K. multicuspis'' were collected from Kirt ...
'' Kermack et al. 1998
**Genus †''
Xianshou
''Xianshou'' is a genus of glidingQing-Jin Meng; David M. Grossnickle; Di Liu; Yu-Guang Zhang; April I. Neander; Qiang Ji; Zhe-Xi Luo (2017). "New gliding mammaliaforms from the Jurassic". Nature. in press. . haramiyidan synapsid known from the ...
'' Bi et al. 2014
**Genus †''
Sineleutherus
''Sineleutherus'' is an extinct genus of euharamiyids which existed in Asia during the Jurassic period. The type species is ''Sineleutherus uyguricus'', which was described by Thomas Martin, Alexander O. Averianov and Hans-Ulrich Pfretzschner in ...
Theroteinus
''Theroteinus'' is an extinct genus of haramiyidan mammaliaforms from the Late Triassic of France and Britain. It contains three species: ''T. nikolai,'' ''T. rosieriensis'' and ''T. jenkinsi'', the former two of which are known exclusively fro ...
'' Sigogneau-Russell, Frank & Hammerle 1986
*Family † Thomasiidae Poche 1908 Simpson 1947 sensu Jenkins et al. 1997; Microlestidae Murry 1866; Microcleptidae Simpson 1928">aramiyidae Simpson 1947 sensu Jenkins et al. 1997; Microlestidae Murry 1866; Microcleptidae Simpson 1928**Genus †'' Eoraetica''
**Genus †'' Avashishta'' Anantharaman & al. 2006
**Genus †'' Allostaffia'' Heinrich 2004 'Staffia'' Heinrich 1999 non Schubert 1911">Staffia.html" ;"title="'Staffia">'Staffia'' Heinrich 1999 non Schubert 1911**Genus †''Thomasia (mammal)">Thomasia
''Thomasia'' is a genus of thirty-one species of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae. Plants in this genus are small shrubs that are endemic to the south-west of Western Australia, apart from '' T. petalocalyx'' that is native to Victoria ...
Multituberculata
Multituberculata (commonly known as multituberculates, named for the multiple tubercles of their teeth) is an extinct order of rodent-like mammals with a fossil record spanning over 130 million years. They first appeared in the Middle Jurassic, ...
Late Jurassic
The Late Jurassic is the third epoch of the Jurassic Period, and it spans the geologic time from 163.5 ± 1.0 to 145.0 ± 0.8 million years ago (Ma), which is preserved in Upper Jurassic strata.Owen 1987.
In European lithostratigraphy, the ...
–
Eocene
The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes from the Ancient Greek (''ēṓs'', " ...
Plagiaulacidae
Plagiaulacidae is a family of fossil mammals within the order Multituberculata. Remains are known from the Upper Jurassic and earliest Cretaceous of North America and Europe
Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a contine ...
Albionbaataridae
Albionbaataridae is a family of small, extinct mammals within the order Multituberculata. Fossil remains are known from the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of Europe and Asia. These herbivores lived their obscure lives during the Mesozoic, a ...
Kielan-Jaworowska & Ensom 1994
*Family †
Eobaataridae
Eobaataridae is a family of fossil mammals within the order Multituberculata. Remains are known from the Lower Cretaceous of Europe and Asia. They are among the most derived representatives of the informal suborder " Plagiaulacida", and closely ...
Glirodon
''Glirodon'' is a genus of extinct mammal from the Upper Jurassic. It was a relatively early member of the also-extinct order of Multituberculata, suborder " Plagiaulacida". These mammals lived in North America during the Mesozoic, also known ...
'' Engelmann & Callison 2001
**Family †
Arginbaataridae
''Arginbaatar'' is a genus of extinct mammal from the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia. It was a member of the Multituberculata, an order which is also extinct. It belongs to the family Arginbaataridae (Hahn & Hahn 1983). The genus ''Arginbaatar'' ...
Hahn & Hahn 1983 non Trofimov 1980
**Family †
Zofiabaataridae
''Zofiabaatar'' is a genus of extinct mammal from the Upper Jurassic period. It was a relatively early member of the extinct order Multituberculata within the suborder "Plagiaulacida". It lived in North America along with dinosaurs such as ''Di ...
Bakker 1992
**Family †
Allodontidae
Allodontidae (from ancient Greek "ἄλλος" "ὀδούς", "different tooth") is a family of extinct multituberculate mammal that lived in what is now North America during the Upper Jurassic period. They were relatively early mammals and a ...
Mojo
Mojo may refer to:
*Mojo (African-American culture), a magical charm bag used in voodoo
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* MOJO HD, an American television network
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* '' ...
'' Hahn, LePage & Wouters 1987
**Genus †''
Rugosodon
''Rugosodon'' is an extinct genus of multituberculate (rodent-like) mammals from eastern China that lived 160 million years ago during the Jurassic period. The discovery of its type species and currently only known species ''Rugosodon eurasiat ...
'' Yuan et al. 2013
**Family †
Hahnodontidae
Hahnodontidae is a family of extinct mammaliaforms from Early Cretaceous deposits in Morocco and the Western United States. Although originally considered to belong to the extinct clade Multituberculata, recent work indicates that hahnodontid ...
Sigigneau-Russell 1991
**Family †
Pinheirodontidae
Pinheirodontidae is a poorly known family of fossil mammals which belong to the informal suborder "Plagiaulacida" within the order Multituberculata. Remains are known from the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous of Europe, (predominantly Portugal ...
Hahn & Hahn 1999
**Family †
Paulchoffatiidae
Paulchoffatiidae is a family of extinct mammals that lived predominantly during the Upper Jurassic period, though a couple of genera are known from the Early Cretaceous. Fossils have been reported from Europe (Portugal, Spain, Germany and England ...
Hahn 1969 sensu McKenna & Bell 1997
*Suborder †
Gondwanatheria
Gondwanatheria is an extinct group of mammaliaforms that lived in parts of Gondwana, including Madagascar, India, South America, Africa and Antarctica during the Upper Cretaceous through the Paleogene (and possibly much earlier, if '' Allostaff ...
**Family †
Ferugliotheriidae
Ferugliotheriidae is one of three known families in the order Gondwanatheria, an enigmatic group of extinct mammals. Gondwanatheres have been classified as a group of uncertain affinities or as members of Multituberculata, a major extinct mammal ...
Bonaparte 1986
**Family †
Sudamericidae
Sudamericidae is a family of gondwanathere mammals that lived during the late Cretaceous to Miocene. Its members include ''Lavanify'' and '' Vintana'' from the Cretaceous of Madagascar, ''Bharattherium'' (=''Dakshina'') from the Cretaceous of Ind ...
Groeberiidae
Groeberiidae is a family of strange non- placental mammals from the Eocene and Oligocene epochs of Patagonia, Argentina and Chile, South America. Originally classified as paucituberculate marsupials, they were suggested to be late represent ...
Patterson 1952 sensu Flynn & Wyss 1999
*Suborder †
Cimolodonta
Cimolodonta is a taxon of extinct mammals that lived from the Cretaceous to the Eocene. They were some of the more derived members of the extinct order Multituberculata. They probably lived something of a rodent-like existence until their eco ...
**Genus †''
Ameribaatar
''Ameribaatar'' is an extinct mammal of the Late Cretaceous. It was a member of the also extinct order of Multituberculata. It lived in North America during the Mesozoic, also known as the "age of the dinosaurs". Whether it belongs to Plagiaul ...
'' Eaton & Cifelli 2001
**Genus †''
Argentodites
''Argentodites'' is a possible multituberculate mammal from the Cretaceous of Argentina. The single species, ''Argentodites coloniensis'', is known from a single blade-like fourth lower premolar (p4) from the La Colonia Formation, which is mo ...
'' Kielan-Jaworowska et al. 2007
**Genus †''
Bryceomys
''Bryceomys'' is an extinct mammal that lived during the late Cretaceous period (between 100 and 66 million years ago) and thus shared the world with dinosaurs. It was a member of the also extinct order of Multituberculata. It was within the su ...
'' Eaton 1995
**Genus †'' Bubodens'' Wilson 1987
**Genus †''
Cedaromys
''Cedaromys'' ("Cedar mouse") is an extinct mammal which lived during the Upper Cretaceous, at the same time as many dinosaurs. It was a member of the also extinct order of Multituberculata. It's within the suborder of Cimolodonta, and a possibl ...
'' Eaton & Cifelli 2001
**Genus †''
Clemensodon
''Clemensodon'' is a genus of extinct mammal from the Upper Cretaceous of North America. It lived during the end of the Mesozoic, also known as the "age of the dinosaurs". It was a member of the extinct order of Multituberculata within the s ...
Viridomys
''Viridomys'' is a genus of extinct mammal from the Upper Cretaceous of North America. It was a member of the extinct order of Multituberculata, and lived during the Mesozoic, also known as the "age of the dinosaurs." It's within the suborder ...
'' Fox 1971
**Genus †''
Paracimexomys
''Paracimexomys'' is a genus of extinct mammals in the also extinct Multituberculata order. ''Paracimexomys'' lived during the Cretaceous period. The few fossils remains come from North America. Some Romanian fossils were also tentatively assig ...
Cimolomyidae
Cimolomyidae is a family of fossil mammal within the extinct order Multituberculata. Representatives are known from the Upper Cretaceous and the Paleocene of North America and perhaps Mongolia. The family is part of the suborder Cimolodonta. O ...
Marsh 1889 sensu Kielan-Jaworowska & Hurum 2001
**Family †
Kogaionidae
Kogaionidae is a family of fossil mammals within the extinct order Multituberculata. Representatives are known from the Upper Cretaceous and the Paleocene of Europe. Having started as island endemics on Hateg Island during the Upper Cretaceous, ...
Rãdulescu & Simpson 1996
**Family †
Eucosmodontidae
Eucosmodontidae is a poorly preserved family of fossil mammals within the extinct order Multituberculata. Representatives are known from strata dating from the Upper Cretaceous through the Lower Eocene of North America, as well as the Paleo ...
Jepsen 1940
**Family †
Microcosmodontidae
Microcosmodontidae is a poorly preserved family of fossil mammals within the extinct order Multituberculata. Representatives are known from the Lower Paleocene of North America. The family is part of the suborder Cimolodonta. Other than that ...
Holtzman & Wolberg 1977
**Superfamily †
Ptilodontoidea
Ptilodontoidea is a group of extinct mammals from the Northern Hemisphere.
They were generally small, somewhat rodent-like creatures of the extinct order Multituberculata.
Some of these genera boast a great many species, though remains are ge ...
Cope 1887 sensu McKenna & Bell 1997 & Kielan-Jaworowska & Hurum 2001
***Genus †''
Neoliotomus
''Neoliotomus'' is a genus of North American mammal from the Paleocene. It existed in the age immediately following the extinction of the last dinosaurs and was a member of the extinct order Multituberculata. It lies within the suborder Cimolod ...
'' Jepsen 1930
***Family †
Cimolodontidae
Cimolodontidae is a family of fossil mammals within the extinction, extinct Order (biology), order Multituberculata. Representatives are known from the Upper Cretaceous and Paleocene of North America. The family Cimolodontidae was named by Oth ...
Marsh 1889 sensu Kielan-Jaworowska & Hurum 2001
***Family †
Ptilodontidae
Ptilodontidae is a family of primitive mammals within the extinct order Multituberculata. Representatives are known from the Upper Cretaceous and Paleocene of North America.
The Ptilodontidae family was originally named Ptilodontinae and clas ...
Cope 1887 sensu McKenna & Bell 1997
**Superfamily †
Taeniolabidoidea
Taeniolabidoidea is a group of extinct mammals known from North America and Asia. They were the largest members of the extinct order Multituberculata, as well as the largest non- therian mammals. ''Lambdopsalis'' even provides direct fossil ev ...
Taeniolabididae
Taeniolabididae is one of the two multituberculate clades within Taeniolabidoidea. Originally basically synonymous with Taeniolabidoidea, it has more recently been found to be a specific clade including ''Kimbetopsalis'', '' Taeniolabis'' and s ...
Djadochtatheria
Djadochtatherioidea is a group of extinct mammals known from the upper Cretaceous of Central Asia. They were members of an also extinct order called Multituberculata. These were generally somewhat rodent-like creatures, who scurried around durin ...
Kielan-Jaworowska & Hurum 1997]
***Genus †''
Bulganbaatar
''Bulganbaatar'' is a Central Asian mammal genus from the Upper Cretaceous. It existed in the company of dinosaurs. This animal was a member of the extinct order Multituberculata. It's within the suborder Cimolodonta and is a member of the sup ...
'' Kielan-Jaworowska 1974
***Genus †''
Nemegtbaatar
''Nemegtbaatar'' is a genus of mammal from the Upper Cretaceous Period of what is now Mongolia. It existed in the company of much larger dinosaurs, found together in the Nemegt Basin. This creature was a member of the extinct order Multituber ...
'' Kielan-Jaworowska 1974
***Genus †''
Pentacosmodon
''Pentacosmodon'' is a mammal genus from the Paleocene of North America, so it lived somewhat after the "age of the dinosaurs". It was a member of the extinct order Multituberculata. It's within the suborder Cimolodonta and family Microcosmodon ...
Sloanbaataridae
Sloanbaataridae is a family of fossil mammals within the extinct order Multituberculata. Remains are known from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. These small herbivores lived during the "age of the dinosaurs". This family is part of the suborder ...
Kielan-Jaworowska 1974
***Family †
Djadochtatheriidae
Djadochtatheriidae is a family of fossil mammals within the extinct order Multituberculata. Remains are known from the Upper Cretaceous of Central Asia. These animals lived during the Mesozoic, also known as the "age of the dinosaurs". Th ...
Kielan-Jaworowska & Hurum 1997
Subclass
Theria
Theria (; Greek: , wild beast) is a subclass of mammals amongst the Theriiformes. Theria includes the eutherians (including the placental mammals) and the metatherians (including the marsupials) but excludes the egg-laying monotremes.
C ...
Pantotheria
Pantotheria is an abandoned taxon of Mesozoic mammals. This group is now considered an informal "wastebasket" taxon and has been replaced by Dryolestida as well as other groups. It is sometimes treated as an infraclass and older books refer to ...
Brandoniidae
Dryolestidae is an extinct family of Mesozoic mammals, known from the Middle Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous of the North Hemisphere. The oldest known member, '' Anthracolestes'', is known from the Middle Jurassic Itat Formation of Western Siber ...
Donodontidae
Cladotheria is a clade (sometimes ranked as a legion) of mammals. It contains modern therian mammals (marsupials and placentals) and several extinct groups, such as the dryolestoids, amphitheriids and peramurids. The clade was named in 1975 ...
Sigogneau-Russell 1991
**Genus †''
Donodon
''Donodon'' is an extinct genus of mammal from the Ksar Metlili Formation of Talssint, Morocco, which has been dated to the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous epochs (Tithonian–Berriasian ages). The type species ''D. prescriptoris'' was descr ...
'' Sigogneau-Russell 1991
*Family †
Paurodontidae
Paurodontidae is a family of Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous mammals in the order Dryolestida. Remains of paurodontids have been found in the United States, Britain, Portugal, and Tanzania. The group likely represents a paraphyletic group of ba ...
Marsh 1887 non Thorne 1941
**Genus †''
Araeodon
''Paurodon'' is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic mammal from the Morrison Formation of the Western United States.
Taxonomy
''Paurodon'' is the type genus of the dryolestidan group Paurodontidae. ''Araeodon'', ''Archaeotrigon'', ''Foxraptor'', ...
'' Simpson 1937
**Genus †''
Archaeotrigon
''Paurodon'' is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic mammal from the Morrison Formation
The Morrison Formation is a distinctive sequence of Late Jurassic, Upper Jurassic sedimentary rock found in the western United States which has been the most ...
'' Simpson 1927
**Genus †''
Brancatherulum
''Brancatherulum'' is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian - Tithonian) mammal from the Tendaguru Formation of Lindi Region of Tanzania. It is based on a single toothless dentary 21 mm in length. It is currently considered either a ste ...
''
Dietrich
Dietrich () is an ancient German name meaning "Ruler of the People.” Also "keeper of the keys" or a "lockpick" either the tool or the profession.
Given name
* Dietrich, Count of Oldenburg (c. 1398 – 1440)
* Thierry of Alsace (german: Dietr ...
1927
**Genus †''
Comotherium
''Comotherium'' is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian - Tithonian) mammal from the Morrison Formation.
Present in stratigraphic zone 5.Foster, J. (2007). "Appendix." ''Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their W ...
'' Prothero 1981
**Genus †''
Dorsetodon
''Dorsetodon'' is an extinct genus of mammal from the Early Cretaceous (Berriasian) Purbeck Group of Britain. It is represented by isolated lower molars.P. C. Ensom and D. Sigogneau-Russell, 1998. New dryolestoid mammals from the basal Cretaceou ...
'' Ensom & Sigogneau-Russell 1998
**Genus †''
Drescheratherium
''Drescheratherium'' is an extinct genus of mammal from the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) Camadas de Guimarota of Leiria, Portugal. It is represented by fairly complete upper jaws with teeth. It bears elongated upper canines, though not to the ex ...
'' Krebs 1998
**Genus †''
Euthlastus
''Euthlastus'' is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian - Tithonian) mammal from the Morrison Formation.
Present in stratigraphic zones 5 and 6.Foster, J. (2007). "Appendix." ''Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and ...
Henkelotherium
''Henkelotherium'' is an extinct genus of dryolestidan mammal from the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) Camadas de Guimarota, in Portugal. Unlike many other Jurassic mammals, it is known from a largely complete skeleton, and is thought to have had ...
'' Krebs 1991
**Genus †''
Paurodon
''Paurodon'' is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic mammal from the Morrison Formation of the Western United States.
Taxonomy
''Paurodon'' is the type genus of the dryolestidan group Paurodontidae. ''Araeodon'', ''Archaeotrigon'', ''Foxraptor'', a ...
'' Marsh 1887
**Genus †''
Tathiodon
''Tathiodon'' is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian - Tithonian) mammal from the Morrison Formation.
Present in stratigraphic zone 5.Foster, J. (2007). "Appendix." ''Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their Wo ...
'' (Simpson 1927) Simpson 1927 'Tanaodon'' Simpson1927 non Kirk 1927; ''Pelicopsis">Tanaodon.html" ;"title="'Tanaodon">'Tanaodon'' Simpson1927 non Kirk 1927; ''Pelicopsis'' Simpson 1927]
*Family †Vincelestidae Bonaparte 1986
**Genus †''Vincelestes'' Bonaparte 1986
*Family †Picopsidae Fox 1980
**Genus †''Picopsis'' Fox 1980
**Genus †'' Tirotherium'' Montellano-Ballesteros & Fox 2015
Order †
Spalacotheriida
Symmetrodonta is a group of Mesozoic mammals and mammal-like synapsids characterized by the triangular aspect of the molars when viewed from above, and the absence of a well-developed talonid. The traditional group of 'symmetrodonts' ranges in a ...
*Genus †'' Gobiotheriodon'' Trofimov 1997 sensu Averianov 2002 'Gobiodon'' Trofimov 1980 non Bleeker 1856">Gobiodon.html" ;"title="'Gobiodon">'Gobiodon'' Trofimov 1980 non Bleeker 1856
*Genus †''Maotherium'' Rougier, Ji & Novacek 2003
*Family †Thereuodontidae Sigogneau-Russell 1998
**Genus †''Thereuodon'' Sigogneau-Russell 1987
*Family †Zhangheotheriidae Rougier, Ji & Novacek 2003
**Genus †''
Zhangheotherium
''Zhangheotherium'' is a genus of symmetrodont, an extinct order of mammals. Previously known from only the tall pointed crowned teeth, ''Zhangheotherium'', described from Liaoning Province, China, fossils in 1997, is the first symmetrodont ...
'' Hu et al. 1997
*Family †
Tinodontidae
Tinodontidae is an extinct family of actively mobile mammals, endemic to what would now be North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to t ...
Tinodon
''Tinodon'' is an extinct genus of mammal alive 155–140.2 million years ago ( Oxfordian-Berriasian) which has been found in the Morrison Formation (United States),Foster, J. (2007). "Appendix." ''Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison For ...
Spalacotheriidae
Spalacotheriidae is a family of extinct mammals belonging to the paraphyletic group ' Symmetrodonta'. They lasted from the Early Cretaceous to the Campanian in North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa.
Spalacotheriids are characterised by h ...
Yaverlestes
''Yaverlestes gassoni'' is an extinct mammal
Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their you ...
Spalacotherium
''Spalacotherium'' is a genus of extinct mammal from the Early Cretaceous of Europe. The type species ''Spalacotherium tricuspidens'' was originally named by Richard Owen in 1854, and its material includes maxillary and dentary fragments and ma ...
Akidolestes
''Akidolestes'' is an extinct genus of mammals from the family spalacotheriid.
Although Akidolestes do not have any modern relatives, they are early mammals related to therians (the subclass containing marsupials and placentals). They belong ...
Meridiolestida
Meridiolestida is an extinct clade of mammals known from the Cretaceous and Cenozoic of South America and possibly Antarctica. They represented the dominant group of mammals in South America during the Late Cretaceous. Meridiolestidans were morp ...
*Genus †''
Leonardus
''Leonardus'' is an extinct mammal genus from the Late Cretaceous ( Late Santonian to Maastrichtian) of South America.
Necrolestes
''Necrolestes'' ("grave robber" or "thief of the dead") is an extinct genus of mammals, which lived during the Early Miocene in what is now Argentine Patagonia. It is the most recent known genus of Meridiolestida, an extinct group of mammals mo ...
'' Ameghino 1894 sensu Rougier et al. 2012
*Superfamily † Mesungulatoidea
**Family † Reigitheriidae Bonaparte 1990
***Genus †''
Reigitherium
''Reigitherium'' was a mammal that lived during the Late Cretaceous, in the (Late Campanian-Maastrichtian). Its fossils have been found in the Los Alamitos and the La Colonia Formations of Argentina.
Description
The original specimen of ''Reig ...
Peligrotherium
''Peligrotherium'' is an extinct meridiolestidan, and the sole member of the family Peligrotheriidae, from the Paleocene of Patagonia, originally interpreted as a stem-ungulate (though it did co-exist with early meridiungulates). Its remains hav ...
'' Bonaparte, Van Valen & Kramartz 1993
**Family †
Mesungulatidae
Mesungulatidae is an extinct clade of meridiolestidan dryolestoid mammals from the Late Cretaceous of South America and possibly other Gondwannan landmasses. They are particularly notable for their ecological speciation and large size.
Charac ...
Bonaparte 1986 sensu Rougier et al. 2009
***Genus †''
Coloniatherium
''Coloniatherium'' is a meridiolestid mammal from the Late Cretaceous of Argentina. The single species, ''Coloniatherium cilinskii'', was a large member of the family Mesungulatidae.
Taxonomy
''Coloniatherium'' was named in 2009 by Guillermo ...
'' Rougier et al. 2009
***Genus †'' Mesungulatum'' Bonaparte & Soria 1985
*Family † Austrotriconodontidae Bonaparte 1992
**Genus †''
Austrotriconodon
''Austrotriconodon'' is a mammal genus from the Campanian and Maastrichtian of South America. It currently contains only the type species, ''A. mckennai''. Originally assumed to be a eutriconodont, more recent studies have recovered it as a meri ...
'' Bonaparte 1986b
Order †
Dryolestida
Dryolestida is an extinct order of mammals, primarily and possibly exclusively known from the Jurassic and Cretaceous. They are considered members of the clade Cladotheria, close to the ancestry of therian mammals. It is also believed that they ...
*Family †
Dryolestidae
Dryolestidae is an extinct family of Mesozoic mammals, known from the Middle Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous of the North Hemisphere. The oldest known member, '' Anthracolestes'', is known from the Middle Jurassic Itat Formation of Western Siber ...
Marsh 1879
**Genus †'' Anthracolestes'' Averianov, Martin & Lopatin 2014
**Genus †'' Guimarotodus'' Martin 1999
**Genus †'' Krebsotherium'' Martin 1999
**Genus †''
Phascolestes
''Phascolestes'' is a genus of extinct mammal from the Berriasian epoch of Early Cretaceous Southern England. The type and only species is ''Phascolestes mustelulus'', which was named by Richard Owen in 1871 for dental material from the Lulwort ...
Laolestes
''Laolestes'' is an extinct genus of dryolestid mammal. Fossil remains are known from the Morrison Formation, in stratigraphic zones 5 and 6.,Foster, J. (2007). "Appendix." ''Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their Worl ...
'' Simpson 1927
**Genus †''
Melanodon
''Laolestes'' is an extinct genus of dryolestid mammal. Fossil remains are known from the Morrison Formation, in stratigraphic zones 5 and 6.,Foster, J. (2007). "Appendix." ''Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World ...
Dryolestes
''Dryolestes'' is an extinct genus of Late Jurassic mammal from the Morrison Formation and the Alcobaça Formation of Portugal. The type species ''Dryolestes priscus'' is present in stratigraphic zones 2, 5, and 6.Foster, J. (2007). "Appendix." ' ...
Laolestes
''Laolestes'' is an extinct genus of dryolestid mammal. Fossil remains are known from the Morrison Formation, in stratigraphic zones 5 and 6.,Foster, J. (2007). "Appendix." ''Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their Worl ...
Amphitheriida
Amphitheriidae is a family of Mesozoic mammals restricted to the Middle Jurassic of Britain, with indeterminate members also possibly known from the equivalently aged Itat Formation in Siberia and the Anoual Formation of Morocco. They were mem ...
*Family †
Amphitheriidae
Amphitheriidae is a family of Mesozoic mammals restricted to the Middle Jurassic of Britain, with indeterminate members also possibly known from the equivalently aged Itat Formation in Siberia and the Anoual Formation of Morocco. They were mem ...
Amphitherium
''Amphitherium'' is an extinct genus of stem cladotherian mammal that lived during the Middle Jurassic of England. It was one of the first Mesozoic mammals ever described. A recent phylogenetic study found it to be the sister taxon of ''Palaeox ...
'' de Blainville 1838 non Owen 1845 non von Meyer 'Amphigonus'' Agassiz 1838; ''Amphitylus">Amphigonus.html" ;"title="'Amphigonus">'Amphigonus'' Agassiz 1838; ''Amphitylus'' Osborn 1888; ''Botheratiotherium'' de Blainville 1838; ''Heterotherium'' de Blainville 1838 non Fischer de Waldheim 1822; '' Thylacotherium'' Valenciennes 1838]
Order †
Peramurida
The family Peramuridae is a family of mammals that lived in the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous. They are considered to be advanced cladotherians closely related to therian mammals as part of Zatheria
Cladotheria is a clade (sometimes ran ...
*Family †
Peramuridae
The family Peramuridae is a family of mammals that lived in the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous. They are considered to be advanced cladotherians closely related to therian mammals as part of Zatheria
Cladotheria is a clade (sometimes ran ...
Peramuroides
''Peramuroides'' is a genus of extinct mammal from the Early Cretaceous of southern England. The type and only species is ''Peramuroides tenuiscus'', described in 2012
File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cru ...
'' Davis 2012
**Genus †'' Kuriogenys'' Davis 2012
**Genus †''
Peramus
''Peramus'' is an extinct genus of cladotherian mammal. It lived in the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous of Europe and North Africa.
Species
There are three known extinct species in the genus:
* '' Peramus dubius'' Lulworth Formation, Unite ...
Aegialodontidae
Aegialodontia is a clade of extinct early mammals, close to the origin of Boreosphenida. The clade includes some of the oldest known tribosphenic taxa, until the discovery of '' Tribactonodon'' from the Berriasian Durlston Formation in 2001, ''A ...
Kermack 1967
**Genus †''
Aegialodon
''Aegialodon dawsoni'' is an extinct mammal from the early Cretaceous, known from fossilised teeth discovered in the Wadhurst Clay Formation (dating to about 136 million years ago) near Cliff End, Hastings, East Sussex
Hastings () is a lar ...
Pappotheriidae
''Pappotherium'' is an extinct genus of mammals from the Albian (early Cretaceous) of Texas, US, known from a fossilized maxilla fragment bearing two tribosphenic molars, discovered within the Glen Rose Formation near Decatur, Wise County, ...
Slaughter 1965
**Genus †'' Paraisurus'' non Glikman 1957
**Genus †''
Pappotherium
''Pappotherium'' is an extinct genus of mammals from the Albian (early Cretaceous) of Texas, US, known from a fossilized maxilla fragment bearing two tribosphenic molars, discovered within the Glen Rose Formation near Decatur, Wise County, ...
Metatheria
Metatheria is a mammalian clade that includes all mammals more closely related to marsupials than to placentals. First proposed by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1880, it is a more inclusive group than the marsupials; it contains all marsupials as we ...
Late Cretaceous
The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale. Rock strata from this epoch form the Upper Cretaceous Series. The Cretaceous is named after ''creta'', ...
–Recent
Metatheria incertae sedis
*Genus †''
Sinodelphys
''Sinodelphys'' is an extinct eutherian from the Early Cretaceous, estimated to be 125 million years old. It was discovered and described in 2003 in rocks of the Yixian Formation in Liaoning Province, China, by a team of scientists including ...
Pucadelphys
''Pucadelphys'' is an extinct genus of non-marsupial metatherian. The genus contains a single species, ''P. andinus''. Fossils of ''Pucadelphys'' have been found in the Santa Lucía Formation in Tiupampa in Bolivia.
'' Marshall & de Muizon 1988
*Genus †'' Andinodelphys'' Marshall & de Muizon 1988
*Genus †'' Szalinia'' de Muizon & Cifelli 2001
*Genus †''
Djarthia
''Djarthia'' is an extinct monotypic genus of marsupial. It is the oldest marsupial found in Australia, discovered at the Murgon fossil site in south-eastern Queensland.
''D.'' ''murgonensis'' was described from material identified as Early ...
Herpetotheriidae
Herpetotheriidae is an extinct family of metatherians, closely related to marsupials. Species of this family are generally reconstructed as terrestrial, and are considered morphologically similar to modern opossums. Fossils of herpetotheriids com ...
Trouessant 1879
**Genus †''
Herpetotherium
''Herpetotherium'' is an extinct genus of metatherian mammal, belonging to the possibly paraphyletic family Herpetotheriidae. Native to North America from the Eocene to Early Miocene, fossils have been found in California, Oregon, Texas, Florida ...
'' Cope 1873
**Genus †''
Amphiperatherium
''Amphiperatherium'' is an extinct genus of metatherian mammal, closely related to marsupials. It ranged from the Early Eocene to the Middle Miocene in Europe. It is the most recent metatherian known from the continent.
Description
Like moder ...
Hondadelphys
''Hondadelphys'' is an extinct genus of carnivorous sparassodonts, known from the Middle Miocene of Colombia. The type species, ''H. fieldsi'', was described in 1976 from the fossil locality of La Venta, which hosts fossils from the Villavieja For ...
Ameridelphia
Ameridelphia is traditionally a superorder that includes all marsupials living in the Americas except for the Monito del monte (''Dromiciops''). It is now regarded as a paraphyletic group.
Orders
The orders within this group are listed below:
...
incertae sedis
*Genus †'' Adelodelphys'' Cifelli 2004
*Genus †'' Apistodon'' Davis 2007
*Genus †''
Cocatherium
''Cocatherium'' is an extinct genus of marsupial mammals of uncertain family placement, from the earliest Paleocene (Danian, early Danian) of South America, predating the Tiupampan South American land mammal age. The genus was described based on ...
Protalphadon
''Protalphadon'' is a genus of small mammal from the late Cretaceous. Its fossils are found in Utah, Montana, New Jersey, South Dakota, Wyoming and Colorado. Originally the genus was assigned to ''Alphadon
''Alphadon'' (meaning "first tooth") ...
Holoclemensia
''Holoclemensia'' is an extinct genus of mammal of uncertain phylogenetic placement. It lived during the Early Cretaceous and its fossil remains were discovered in Texas.
Description
This genus is only known from a few isolated teeth. The upp ...
'' Slaughter 1968
Clemensia
''Clemensia'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was described by Packard in 1864.
Species
References
* , 1983: Description de nouvelles Lithosiinae de la Guyana Française (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). ''Annales de la Soci� ...
Deltatheridiidae
Deltatheridiidae is an extinct family of basal carnivorous metatherians that lived in the Cretaceous and were closely related to marsupials. Their fossils are restricted to Central Asia ( Mongolia and Uzbekistan) and North America ( United S ...
Nanocuris
''Nanocuris'' is an extinct genus of Deltatheridiidae from the Cretaceous of Canada (Saskatchewan) and United States (Wyoming - Lance Formation).R. C. Fox, C. S. Scott, and H. N. Bryant. 2007. A new, unusual therian mammal from the Upper Cretace ...
Oklatheridium
''Oklatheridium'' is an extinct genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above ...
Oxlestes
''Oxlestes'' is an extinct mammal from the Late Cretaceous of Asia, more specifically from the Cenomanian of Uzbekistan. A carnivorous species of uncertain affinities, it is notable for its relatively large size, being among the largest of all ...
'' Nesov 1982
**Genus †''
Deltatheridium
''Deltatheridium'' (meaning ''triangle beast'' or ''delta beast'') is an extinct species of metatherian. It lived in what is now Mongolia during the Upper Cretaceous, ''circa'' 80 million years ago. A study in 2022 strongly suggested that Delta ...
'' Gregory & Simpson 1926
**Genus †''
Sulestes
''Sulestes'' is an extinct genus of Deltatheridiidae from Cretaceous of Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic= ...
Asiatheriidae
Asiatheriidae ("Asian opossums") is an family of Cretaceous metatherians in the order Asiadelphia. Different from the Ameridelphia, they lacked a prominent distolateral process on the scaphoid, and possessed a more slender fibula. The masset ...
Asiatherium
''Asiatherium'' is an extinct genus of mammal, probably belonging to Metatheria. It lived during the Late Cretaceous, and its fossilized remains were discovered in Mongolia.
Description
Skull of ''Asiatherium'' is in length. This animal was ...
'' Trofimov & Szalay 1994 [''
Asiatherium
''Asiatherium'' is an extinct genus of mammal, probably belonging to Metatheria. It lived during the Late Cretaceous, and its fossilized remains were discovered in Mongolia.
Description
Skull of ''Asiatherium'' is in length. This animal was ...
'' Trofimov & Cuny 1993 (nomen nudum)]
Order †Alphadontia
*Family †Alphadontidae Marshall, Case & Woodburne 1990
**Genus †''Eoalphadon'' Eaton 2009
**Genus †''Albertatherium'' Fox 1971
**Genus †''
Alphadon
''Alphadon'' (meaning "first tooth") is an extinct genus of small, primitive mammal that was a member of the metatherians, a group of mammals that includes modern-day marsupials. Its fossils were first discovered and named by George Gaylord ...
'' Simpson 1927
*Family † Pediomyidae Simpson 1927 Davis 2007">quiladelphidae Davis 2007**Genus †'' Monodelphopsis'' de Paula Couto 1952 microbiotheriid (Marshall et al. 1990)**Genus †'' Aletridelphys'' Davis 2007 'Protolambda'' Osborn 1898; ''Synconodon">Protolambda.html" ;"title="'Protolambda">'Protolambda'' Osborn 1898; ''Synconodon'' Osborn 1898]
**Genus †''Leptalestes'' Davis 2007
**Genus †''Aquiladelphis'' Fox 1971
**Genus †''Pediomys'' Marsh 1889
*Family †Stagodontidae Marsh 1889 sensu McKenna & Bell 1997
**Genus †'' Boreodon'' Lambe 1902 (nomen dubium)
**Genus †'' Pariadens'' Cifelli & Eaton 1987
**Genus †'' Delphodon'' Simpson 1927
**Genus †''
Eodelphis
''Eodelphis'', from eo- plus /nowiki>''delphis''">/nowiki>/nowiki>''delphis'', thus meaning "very early opossum", is a genus of stagodont metatherians from the Late Cretaceous of North America, with distinctive crushing dentition. Named speci ...
'' Matthew 1916
**Genus †''
Didelphodon
''Didelphodon'' (from ''is''/nowiki>">/nowiki>''is''/nowiki> "opossum" plus "tooth") is a genus of stagodont metatherians from the Late Cretaceous of North America.
Description
Although perhaps little larger than a Virginia opossum, with a ...
Chulpasia
''Chulpasia'' is an extinct genus of Eocene marsupial related to today's shrew opossums. It was a small animal, about long, with an omnivorous diet. Its diet probably included seeds, small fruits, and insects. Fossils were found in the Muñani ...
Hondalagus
''Hondalagus'' is an extinct genus of marsupial mammals that lived during the Middle Miocene epoch ( Laventan) in South America. Their fossils were found in the Honda Group at Quebrada Honda, in southern Bolivia.
'' Villarroel & Marshall 1988
***Genus †''
Argyrolagus
''Argyrolagus'' is an extinct genus of South American metatherian, belonging to the order Polydolopimorpha from the Early Pliocene Monte Hermoso Formation, Patagonia, Argentina.'Microtragulus'' Ameghino 1904 McKenna & Bell 1997">Microtragulus.html" ;"title="'Microtragulus">'Microtragulus'' Ameghino 1904 McKenna & Bell 1997***Genus †''Microtragulus'' Ameghino 1904 [''
Argyrolagus
''Argyrolagus'' is an extinct genus of South American metatherian, belonging to the order Polydolopimorpha from the Early Pliocene Monte Hermoso Formation, Patagonia, Argentina.Peradectia
*Family † Peradectidae Crochet 1979
**Genus †'' Armintodelphys'' Krishtalka & Stucky 1983
**Genus †'' Indodelphis'' Bajpai et al. 2005
**Genus †'' Mimoperadectes'' Bown & Rose 1979
**Genus †'' Nanodelphys'' McGrew 1937 '' Didelphidectes'' Hough 1961
**Genus †'' Alloeodectes'' Russell 1984
**Genus †'' Sinoperadectes'' Storch & Qui 2002
**Genus †''
Siamoperadectes
''Siamoperadectes'' is a genus of non-marsupial metatherian from the Miocene of Thailand. A member of Peradectidae, it is the first member of its clade known from South Asia, and among the last non-marsupial metatherians.
Description
The type ...
'' Ducrocq et al. 1992
**Genus †''
Peradectes
''Peradectes'' is an extinct genus of small metatherian mammals known from the CretaceousKorth, W. W. (2008). Marsupialia. In C. M. Janis, G. F. Gunnell, & M. D. Uhen (Eds.)Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America: Volume 2, Small Mammals, ...
'' Matthew & Granger 1921 'Thylacodon'' Matthew & Granger 1921">Thylacodon.html" ;"title="'Thylacodon">'Thylacodon'' Matthew & Granger 1921
Mayulestes
''Mayulestes'' (Quechua: ''mayu'' river, + Greek: ''lestes'', thief) is a genus of carnivorous metatherian that lived in what is now Tiupampa, Bolivia in the early Paleocene. It shared its habitat with fellow sparrasodont ''Pucadelphys
''Pucad ...
'' de Muizon 1994
**Genus †'' Allqokirus'' Marshall & de Muizon 1988
*Family †
Proborhyaenidae
Proborhyaenidae is an extinct family of metatherian mammals of the order Sparassodonta, which lived in South America from the Eocene (Mustersan) until the Oligocene (Deseadan). Sometimes it has been included as a subfamily of their relatives, the ...
Arminiheringia
''Arminiheringia'' is an extinct genus of sparassodont. It lived during the Early Eocene in South America.
Description
This animal had an exceptionally robust skull with strong teeth. The lower canines were exceptionally long and projected forw ...
Prothylacynus
''Prothylacinus'' is an extinct genus of South American metatherian, that lived during the Early Miocene.
Distribution
Fossils of ''Prothylacinus'' have been found in the Friasian Río Frias Formation of Chile and the Santacrucian Santa Cruz ...
Anachlysictis
''Anachlysictis gracilis'' is an extinct carnivorous mammal belonging to the group Sparassodonta, which were metatherians (a group including marsupials and their close relatives) that inhabited South America during the Cenozoic. ''Anachlysictis ...
Borhyaenidae
Borhyaenidae is an extinct metatherian family of low-slung, heavily built predatory mammals in the order Sparassodonta. Borhyaenids are not true marsupials, but members of a sister taxon, Sparassodonta. Like most metatherians, borhyaenids and o ...
Australohyaena
''Australohyaena'' is an extinct genus of carnivorous mammal, belonging to the order Sparassodonta. It lived during the Late Oligocene, and its fossilized remains were discovered in Argentina.
Description
This genus is mainly known from crania ...
'' Forasiepi, Babot & Zimicz 2014
**Genus †''
Fredszalaya
''Fredszalaya'' is an extinct genus of omnivorous mammal, belonging to the order Sparassodonta. It lived during the Late Oligocene, and its fossilized remains were discovered in South America.
Description
It was a relatively small-sized anim ...
*Family †Derorhynchidae Marshall 1987
**Genus †'' Minusculodelphis'' de Paula Couto 1962
**Genus †'' Derorhynchus'' de Paula Couto 1952
*Family † Sparassocynidae Reig 1958 sensu Archer 1984
**Genus †'' Sparassocynus'' Mercerat 1898 'Perazoyphium'' Cebrera 1928">Perazoyphium.html" ;"title="'Perazoyphium">'Perazoyphium'' Cebrera 1928
*Family Didelphidae Gray 1821 (American opossums)
**Genus †''Incadelphys'' Marshall & de Muizon 1988
**Genus †''Coona'' Simpson 1938
**Genus †''Sairadelphys'' Oliveira et al. 2011
**Subfamily † Eobrasiliinae Marshall 1987
***Genus †'' Tiulordia'' Marshall & de Muizon 1988
***Genus †'' Eobrasilia'' Simpson 1947
***Genus †'' Gaylordia'' de Paula Couto 1952 'Xenodelphis'' de Paula Couto 1962">Xenodelphis.html" ;"title="'Xenodelphis">'Xenodelphis'' de Paula Couto 1962***Genus †''Didelphopsis'' de Paula Couto 1952
**Subfamily Didelphinae Grey 1821
***Tribe Didelphini Grey 1821
****Genus †''Hyperdidelphys'' Ameghino 1904 'Paradidelphys'' Ameghino 1904; ''Cladodidelphys">Paradidelphys.html" ;"title="'Paradidelphys">'Paradidelphys'' Ameghino 1904; ''Cladodidelphys'' Ameghino 1904]
****Genus †''Thylophorops'' Reig 1952
***Tribe Marmosini Hershkovitz 1992 [Monodelphinae Talice, de Mosera & Machado 1960 nomen nudum sensu Hershkovitz; Monodelphini Talice, de Mosera & Machado 1960 nomen nudum sensu McKenna & Bell 1997]
****Subtribe † Zygolestina Marshall 1982
*****Genus †'' Zygolestes'' Ameghino 1898
****Subtribe Monodelphina Talice, de Mosera & Machado 1960 armosidae Hershkovitz 1992; Lestodelphyinae Hershkovitz 1992*****Genus †'' Thylatheridium'' Reig 1952
Order
Paucituberculata
Paucituberculata is an order of South American marsupials. Although currently represented only by the seven living species of shrew opossums, this order was formerly much more diverse, with more than 60 extinct species named from the fossil rec ...
Caenolestidae
The family Caenolestidae contains the seven surviving species of shrew opossum: small, shrew-like marsupials that are confined to the Andes mountains of South America. The order is thought to have diverged from the ancestral marsupial line very e ...
*Family †Protodidelphidae Marshall 1987
**Genus †'' Carolocoutoia'' Goin, Oliveira & Candela 1998
**Genus †'' Bobbschaefferia'' de Paula Couto 1970 Schaefferia'' Paula Couto 1952 non Absolon 1900 non Houbert 1918; ''Depaulacoutonia">Schaefferia_(mammal).html" ;"title="'Schaefferia (mammal)">Schaefferia'' Paula Couto 1952 non Absolon 1900 non Houbert 1918; ''Depaulacoutonia'' Kretzoi & Kretzoi 2000]
**Genus †''Zeusdelphys'' Marshall 1982
**Genus †''Periprotodidelphis'' Oliveira & Goin 2011
**Genus †''Protodidelphis'' de Paula Couto 1952 Robertbutleria'' Marshall 1987">' Robertbutleria'' Marshall 1987**Genus †'' Guggenheimia'' de Paula Couto 1952
**Genus †'' Reigia'' Pascual 1983
*Superfamily † Polydolopoidea Ameghino 1897 sensu Clemens & Marshall 1976
**Genus †'' Rosendolops'' Goin & Candela 1996
**Genus †'' Ectocentrocristus'' Rigby & Wolberg 1987 sensu Case, Goin & Woodburne 2005
**Family † Sillustaniidae Crochet & Sigé 1996
***Genus †'' Sillustania'' Crochet & Sigé 1996
**Family † Bonapartheriidae Pascual 1980 Pascual & Bond 1981 non Marshall 1982">pidolopinae Pascual & Bond 1981 non Marshall 1982***Genus †'' Epidolops'' de Paula Couto 1952 sensu Goin & al 2003
***Genus †'' Bonapartherium'' Pascual 1980
**Family † Prepidolopidae Pascual 1980
***Genus †'' Prepidolops'' Pascual 1980
***Genus †'' Wamradolops'' Goin & Candela 2004
***Genus †'' Incadolops'' Goin & Candela 2004
**Family † Polydolopidae Ameghino 1897 Ameghino 1902">romysopidae Ameghino 1902***Genus †'' Roberthoffstetteria'' Marshall, de Muizon & Sigé 1983 sensu Goin & al 2003
***Subfamily Parabderitinae Marshall 1980 sensu McKenna & Bell 1997
****Genus †'' Parabderites'' Ameghino 1902 Tideus'' Ameghino 1890 non Koch 1837; ''Mannodon">Tideus_(mammal).html" ;"title="'Tideus (mammal)">Tideus'' Ameghino 1890 non Koch 1837; ''Mannodon'' Ameghino 1893]
***Subfamily Polydolopinae Ameghino 1897 sensu Pascual & Bond 1981
****Genus †''Polydolops'' Ameghino 1897 [''Pliodolops'' Ameghino 1902; '' Orthodolops'' Ameghino 1903; '' Anissodolops'' Ameghino 1903; '' Archaeodolops'' Ameghino 1903; ''
Antarctodolops
''Antarctodolops'' is an extinct genus of polydolopimorphian metatherian similar to, but not closely related to, the living shrew opossums. It lived on Seymour Island, Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populate ...
Yalkaparidontia
''Yalkaparidon'' is an extinct genus of Australian marsupials, first described in 1988 and known only from the Oligo- Miocene deposits of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia.
Species
Two species, ''Y. coheni'' and ''Y. jonesi'', ...
*Family † Yalkaparidontidae Archer, Hand & Godthelp 1988
**Genus †''
Yalkaparidon
''Yalkaparidon'' is an extinct genus of Australian marsupials, first described in 1988 and known only from the Oligo- Miocene deposits of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia.
Species
Two species, ''Y. coheni'' and ''Y. jonesi'', ...
Notoryctemorphia
Notoryctidae is a family of mammals, allying several extant and fossil species of Australia.
The group appear to have diverged from other marsupials at an early stage and are highly specialised to foraging through loose sand; the unusual feature ...
*Family
Notoryctidae
Notoryctidae is a family of mammals, allying several extant and fossil species of Australia.
The group appear to have diverged from other marsupials at an early stage and are highly specialised to foraging through loose sand; the unusual feature ...
Ogilby 1892 (marsupial moles)
**Genus †''
Naraboryctes
''Naraboryctes philcreaseri'' is a fossil species of marsupial found at early Miocene deposits of Boodjamulla National Park of Riversleigh area, northwestern Queensland, Australia.
Taxonomy
It was first named by Michael Archer, Robin Beck, Mi ...
'' Archer et al. 2010
Order
Dasyuromorphia
Dasyuromorphia (, meaning "hairy tail" in Greek) is an order comprising most of the Australian carnivorous marsupials, including quolls, dunnarts, the numbat, the Tasmanian devil, and the thylacine. In Australia, the exceptions include the ...
Thylacinidae
Thylacinidae is an extinct family of carnivorous, superficially dog-like marsupials from the order Dasyuromorphia. The only species to survive into modern times was the thylacine (''Thylacinus cynocephalus''), which became extinct in 1936.
The ...
Eocene
The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes from the Ancient Greek (''ēṓs'', " ...
Eocene
The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes from the Ancient Greek (''ēṓs'', " ...
Eocene
The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes from the Ancient Greek (''ēṓs'', " ...
Eocene
The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes from the Ancient Greek (''ēṓs'', " ...
Late Cretaceous
The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale. Rock strata from this epoch form the Upper Cretaceous Series. The Cretaceous is named after ''creta'', ...
Paleocene–Recent
*Family †Thylacaelurinae Van Valen 1967
**Genus †''Thylacaelurus'' Russell 1954
*Family †Plagiomenidae Matthew 1918
**Genus †''Eudaemonema'' Simpson 1935
**Genus †''Elpidophorus'' Simpson 1927
**Subfamily †Plagiomeninae Matthew & Granger 1918
***Tribe †Worlandiini Bown & Rose 1979
****Genus †''Planetetherium'' Simpson 1928
****Genus †''Worlandia'' Bown & Rose 1979
***Tribe †Plagiomenini
****Genus †''Ellesmene'' Dawson et al. 1993
****Genus †''Plagiomene'' Matthew 1918
*Family †Mixodectidae Cope 1883 [Oldobotidae Schlosser 1907]
**Genus †''Dracontolestes'' Gazin 1941
**Genus †''Mixodectes'' Cope 1883 [''Indrodon'' Cope 1884; ''Olbodotes'' Osborn 1902]
*Family Cynocephalidae Simpson 1945 [Colugidae Miller 1906; Galeopithecidae Gray 1821; Galeopteridae Thomas 1908; Pleuropteridae Burnett 1829; Pterocebineae Lesson 1840]
**Genus †''Progaleopithecus'' Ameghino 1904
**Genus †''Dermotherium'' Durcrocq et al. 1992
**Genus †''Cynocephalus'' Boddaert 1768 non St. Hilaire & Cuvier 1795 non Swainson 1835 [''Colugo'' Gray 1870; ''Dermopterus'' Burnett 1829; ''Galeolemur'' Lesson 1840; ''Galeopithecus'' Pallas 1783; ''Galeopus'' Rafinesque 1815; ''Pleuropterus'' Burnett 1829] (Philippine flying lemur)
**Genus †''Galeopterus'' Thomas 1908 (Cobego, Sunda/Malayan Flying Lemur)
Order Chiroptera
Eocene
The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes from the Ancient Greek (''ēṓs'', " ...
Eocene
The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes from the Ancient Greek (''ēṓs'', " ...
'
Note: The "condylarths" are considered paraphyletic, i.e. a grouping of early ungulate-like mammals not necessarily closely related.
Paleocene–
Eocene
The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes from the Ancient Greek (''ēṓs'', " ...
Eocene
The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes from the Ancient Greek (''ēṓs'', " ...
Eocene
The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes from the Ancient Greek (''ēṓs'', " ...
Eocene
The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes from the Ancient Greek (''ēṓs'', " ...
–
Eocene
The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes from the Ancient Greek (''ēṓs'', " ...
Eocene
The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes from the Ancient Greek (''ēṓs'', " ...
Eocene
The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes from the Ancient Greek (''ēṓs'', " ...
Eocene
The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes from the Ancient Greek (''ēṓs'', " ...
Eocene
The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes from the Ancient Greek (''ēṓs'', " ...
* List of placental mammals (living species)
* List of monotremes and marsupials (living species)
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