Suborder Dasyuroidea Goldfuss 1820 (marsupial)
Parent taxon: Dasyuromorphia according to S. Wroe 1996
See also McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: Ankotarinja, Dasylurinja, Joculusium, Keeuna, Malleodectidae, Myrmecobiidae, Wakamatha
Subtaxa: Dasyuridae Ganbulanyi Mayigriphus Thylacinidae
Ecology: scansorial omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (65 collections), Papua New Guinea (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Australia (3)
• Pliocene of Australia (11), Papua New Guinea (1)
• Miocene of Australia (12)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (5)
Total: 99 collections including 271 occurrences