Mammalia - Didelphimorphia - Didelphidae
Synonym: Paradidelphys Ameghino 1904
Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1904. Nuevas especies de mamíferos, cretáceos y terciarios de la República Argentina [New species of mammals, Cretaceous and Tertiarty, from the Argentine Republic]. Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina 56–58:1-142
Parent taxon: Didelphini according to M. C. McKenna and S. K. Bell 1997
See also Ameghino 1904, Carroll 1988 and Rovereto 1914
Sister taxa: Chironectes, Lutreolina, Philander, Thylophorops
Subtaxa: Hyperdidelphys acutidens Hyperdidelphys dimartinoi Hyperdidelphys inexpectata Hyperdidelphys parvula Hyperdidelphys pattersoni
Ecology: scansorial omnivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Argentina (16)
• Huayquerian of Argentina (5)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Argentina (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (2)
Total: 25 collections including 34 occurrences
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