Monodelphis Burnett 1830 (short-tailed opossum)
Osteichthyes - Didelphimorphia - Didelphidae
PaleoDB taxon number: 39976
Parent taxon: Monodelphini according to J. L. Patton et al. 1996
Sister taxon: Thylatheridium
Subtaxa: Monodelphis brevicaudata, Monodelphis domestica, Monodelphis emiliae, Monodelphis peruviana, Monodelphis theresa
Ecology: scansorial insectivore-carnivore