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Encyclopedia: Microbiotheria

The Monito del Monte is the only extant member of its family (Microbiotheriidae) and the only surviving member of an ancient order, the Microbiotheria. The oldest microbiothere currently recognised is Khasia cordillerensis, based on fossil teeth from Early Palaeocene deposits at Tiupampa, Bolivia. Numerous genera are known from various Palaeogene and Neogene fossil sites in South America. A number of possible microbiotheres, again represented by isolated teeth, have also been recovered from the Middle Eocene La Meseta Formation of Seymoour Island, Western Antarctica. Finally, several undescribed microbiotheres have been reported from the Early Eocene Tingamarra Local Fauna in Northeastern Australia; if this is indeed the case, then these Australian fossils have important implications for our understanding of marsupial evolution and biogeography.

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Australidelphia

Microbiotheria (1 species) Family Microbiotheriidae: Monito del Monte Order Dasyuromorphia (63 species...

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Desmostylia

| Sirenia Monotremata Didelphimorphia | Paucituberculata | Microbiotheria | Dasyuromorphia...

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Sirenia

Monotremata Didelphimorphia | Paucituberculata | Microbiotheria | Dasyuromorphia | Peramelemorphia...

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Marsupial

Ameridelphia Didelphimorphia Paucituberculata Superorder Australidelphia Microbiotheria... Microbiotheria (which has only one species, the Monito del Monte) is found in South America but is... Australidelphia Order Microbiotheria (1 species) Family Microbiotheriidae: Monito del Monte Order...

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Dasyuromorphia

(Australasian marsupial) tree. Order Microbiotheria: (1 species, the Monito del Monte of South America) ORDER... | Paucituberculata | Microbiotheria | Dasyuromorphia | Peramelemorphia | Notoryctemorphia | Diprotodontia...

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Carnivora

| Microbiotheria | Dasyuromorphia | Peramelemorphia | Notoryctemorphia | Diprotodontia...

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Insectivora

| Proboscidea | Sirenia Monotremata Didelphimorphia | Paucituberculata | Microbiotheria...

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Shrew opossum

Didelphimorphia | Paucituberculata | Microbiotheria | Dasyuromorphia | Peramelemorphia | Notoryctemorphia...

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Tree shrew

Didelphimorphia | Paucituberculata | Microbiotheria | Dasyuromorphia | Peramelemorphia...

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Monito del Monte

Monito del Monte Status: Vulnerable Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Subclass: Marsupialia Order: Microbiotheria Family... Microbiotheria , which is known from Oligocene and Miocene times in South America. Although once thought to be...

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