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Microbiotheriidae

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Microbiotheriidae

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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.

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  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassMammalia
  4. OrderMicrobiotheria
  5. FamilyMicrobiotheriidae
Observations recorded2,517

Соневидные опоссумы (лат. Microbiotheriidae) — семейство сумчатых млекопитающих, выделяемое в монотипический отряд микробиотериев (Microbiotheria). Ископаемые представители известны с позднего мела Южной Америки, в среднем палеогене обитали также в Антарктике. Родственные связи семейства не вполне ясны: в классических системах оно обычно сближается с опоссумами, в новейших — считается сестринской группой для прочих Australidelphia или относится к базальной радиации всех сумчатых.

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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.

Microbiotheriids were once thought to be members of the order Didelphimorphia (which contains the Virginia opossum); however, an accumulation of both anatomical and genetic evidence in recent years has led to the conclusion that microbiotheriids and other microbiotheres are not didelphids at all, but are instead most closely related to the Australasian marsupials; together, the microbiotheres and the Australian orders form the clade Australidelphia which are now thought to have first evolved in the South American region of Gondwana.

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