PaleoDB taxon number: 39936
Synonym: Marsupialia Illiger 1811 (taxon 247806)
Full reference: T. H. Huxley. 1880. On the application of the laws of evolution to the arrangement of the Vertebrata, and more particularly of the Mammalia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society, London 43:649-662
Parent taxon: Theria according to Z.-X. Luo et al. 2011
Sister taxa: Pantotheria, Paratheria, Tribotheria
Subtaxa: Adelodelphys, Anatoliadelphyidae, Anchistodelphys, Archaeonothos, Asiadelphia, Asiatherium, Dakotadens, Deltatheroida, Diprotodonta, Fieratherium, Jaskhadelphyidae, Marsupialia, Marsupialiformes, Mayulestidae, Pappotheriidae, Peradectidae, Polydolopimorphia, Polyprotodontia, Protalphadon, Pucadelphydae, Sinbadelphys, Sparassodonta, Wirunodon
Ecology: scansorial omnivore