Suborder Phalangeriformes Szalay 1982 (possum)

Mammalia - Diprotodontia

Parent taxon: Diprotodontia according to M. S. Y. Springer et al. 1994

See also Prideaux and Warburton 2008 and Wilson and Reeder 2005

Sister taxa: Alkwertatherium, Burramyoidea, Macropodidae, Macropodiformes, Phalangerida, Phalangeroidea, Phalangista convolutor, Phascolarctoidea, Phascolomyoidea, Potoroidae, Pseudocheiridae, Silvabestius, Vombatiformes

Subtaxa: Acrobatidae Burramyidae Petauridae Phalangeridae Tarsipedidae

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Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (32 collections)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Australia (1)

• Pliocene of Australia (6)

• Neogene of Australia (1)

• Miocene of Australia (3)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (4)

• Oligocene of Australia (4)

Total: 51 collections including 116 occurrences

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