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Marsupialia (marsupial)
Taxonomy
Marsupialia was named by Illiger (1811). It is extant.
It was reranked as the family Marsupialia by Illiger (1811) and Bonaparte (1850); it was reranked as the order Marsupialia by Huxley (1880), Flower (1883), Cope (1889), Flower and Lydekker (1891), Hay (1902), Lambe (1908), Gregory (1910), Hay (1930), Olson (1966), McKenna (1975), Clemens (1979), Lillegraven and McKenna (1986), Cifelli (1993), Springer et al. (1994), McKenna and Bell (1997), Kirsch and Mayer (1998) and Kielan-Jaworowska et al. (2004); it was synonymized subjectively with Metatheria by Gadow (1898); it was reranked as the superorder Marsupialia by Marshall (1974), Hooker (1986), Brammall and Archer (1997), Gillespie et al. (2016) and Engelman et al. (2017); it was reranked as the infraclass Marsupialia by Kramarz et al. (2010) and Vianey-Liaud et al. (2014); it was reranked as the unranked clade Marsupialia by Gardiner (1982), Rowe (1988), Luo et al. (2003), Goin et al. (2007), Sánchez-Villagra et al. (2007), Davis (2007), Beck et al. (2008), Horovitz et al. (2009), Ladaveze and Muizon (2010), Luo et al. (2011), Oliveira and Goin (2011), Wilson et al. (2016) and Velazco et al. (2022).
It was assigned to Pollicata by Illiger (1811); to Ovovivipara by Bonaparte (1850); to Didelphia by Cope (1889); to Metatheria by Huxley (1880), Flower (1883) and Flower and Lydekker (1891); to Didelphia by Hay (1902); to Didelphia by Hay (1930); to Theria by Olson (1966); to Tribosphenida by McKenna (1975); to Metatheria by Hooker (1986); to Marsupionta by Kirsch and Mayer (1998); to Metatheria by Horovitz et al. (2009) and Ladaveze and Muizon (2010); to Marsupialiformes by Wilson et al. (2016); to Mammalia by Owen (1859), Lambe (1908), Marshall (1974), Brammall and Archer (1997), Kramarz et al. (2010), Vianey-Liaud et al. (2014) and Gillespie et al. (2016); to Metatheria by Gregory (1910), Clemens (1979), Lillegraven and McKenna (1986), Cifelli (1993), Springer et al. (1994), McKenna and Bell (1997), Luo et al. (2003), Kielan-Jaworowska et al. (2004), Goin et al. (2007), Sánchez-Villagra et al. (2007), Davis (2007), Beck et al. (2008), Luo et al. (2011), Oliveira and Goin (2011) and Engelman et al. (2017); and to Theria by Gardiner (1982), Rowe (1988) and Velazco et al. (2022).
It was reranked as the family Marsupialia by Illiger (1811) and Bonaparte (1850); it was reranked as the order Marsupialia by Huxley (1880), Flower (1883), Cope (1889), Flower and Lydekker (1891), Hay (1902), Lambe (1908), Gregory (1910), Hay (1930), Olson (1966), McKenna (1975), Clemens (1979), Lillegraven and McKenna (1986), Cifelli (1993), Springer et al. (1994), McKenna and Bell (1997), Kirsch and Mayer (1998) and Kielan-Jaworowska et al. (2004); it was synonymized subjectively with Metatheria by Gadow (1898); it was reranked as the superorder Marsupialia by Marshall (1974), Hooker (1986), Brammall and Archer (1997), Gillespie et al. (2016) and Engelman et al. (2017); it was reranked as the infraclass Marsupialia by Kramarz et al. (2010) and Vianey-Liaud et al. (2014); it was reranked as the unranked clade Marsupialia by Gardiner (1982), Rowe (1988), Luo et al. (2003), Goin et al. (2007), Sánchez-Villagra et al. (2007), Davis (2007), Beck et al. (2008), Horovitz et al. (2009), Ladaveze and Muizon (2010), Luo et al. (2011), Oliveira and Goin (2011), Wilson et al. (2016) and Velazco et al. (2022).
It was assigned to Pollicata by Illiger (1811); to Ovovivipara by Bonaparte (1850); to Didelphia by Cope (1889); to Metatheria by Huxley (1880), Flower (1883) and Flower and Lydekker (1891); to Didelphia by Hay (1902); to Didelphia by Hay (1930); to Theria by Olson (1966); to Tribosphenida by McKenna (1975); to Metatheria by Hooker (1986); to Marsupionta by Kirsch and Mayer (1998); to Metatheria by Horovitz et al. (2009) and Ladaveze and Muizon (2010); to Marsupialiformes by Wilson et al. (2016); to Mammalia by Owen (1859), Lambe (1908), Marshall (1974), Brammall and Archer (1997), Kramarz et al. (2010), Vianey-Liaud et al. (2014) and Gillespie et al. (2016); to Metatheria by Gregory (1910), Clemens (1979), Lillegraven and McKenna (1986), Cifelli (1993), Springer et al. (1994), McKenna and Bell (1997), Luo et al. (2003), Kielan-Jaworowska et al. (2004), Goin et al. (2007), Sánchez-Villagra et al. (2007), Davis (2007), Beck et al. (2008), Luo et al. (2011), Oliveira and Goin (2011) and Engelman et al. (2017); and to Theria by Gardiner (1982), Rowe (1988) and Velazco et al. (2022).
Subtaxa
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1811 | Pollicata Illiger p. 65 |
| 1811 | Marsupialia Illiger p. 75 |
| 1811 | Salientia Illiger p. 79 |
| 1821 | Ferae Gray p. 307 |
| 1825 | Ferae Gray p. 339 |
| 1837 | Marsupiata Richardson p. 149 |
| 1838 | Didelpha Bonaparte p. 8 |
| 1850 | Marsupialia Bonaparte p. 1 |
| 1859 | Marsupialia Owen p. 161 |
| 1880 | Marsupialia Huxley p. 658 |
| 1883 | Marsupialia Flower p. 184 |
| 1889 | Marsupialia Cope p. 874 |
| 1891 | Marsupialia Flower and Lydekker p. 88 |
| 1897 | Pharsophorus tenuis Ameghino |
| 1902 | Odontomysopidae Ameghino p. 35 |
| 1902 | Odontomysops Ameghino p. 35 |
| 1902 | Odontomysops spiniferus Ameghino p. 35 |
| 1902 | Promysops primarius Ameghino p. 36 |
| 1902 | Ideodelphys Ameghino p. 43 |
| 1902 | Ideodelphys microscopicus Ameghino p. 43 |
| 1902 | Marsupialia Hay p. 563 |
| 1908 | Marsupialia Lambe |
| 1910 | Marsupialia Gregory p. 464 |
| 1914 | Notogale tenuis Loomis |
| 1930 | Marsupialia Hay p. 386 |
| 1948 | Odontomysops Simpson |
| 1948 | Odontomysops spiniferus Simpson |
| 1966 | Marsupialia Olson p. 302 |
| 1973 | Marsupiata Lundelius and Turnbull p. 15 |
| 1974 | Marsupialia Marshall p. 66 |
| 1975 | Marsupialia McKenna p. 40 |
| 1979 | Marsupialia Clemens p. 193 |
| 1982 | Marsupialia Gardiner p. 229 |
| 1982 | Marsupiata Lundelius and Turnbull p. 2 |
| 1984 | Metadelphia Archer p. 786 |
| 1986 | Marsupialia Hooker p. 212 |
| 1986 | Marsupialia Lillegraven and McKenna p. 27 |
| 1987 | Cimolestes lucasi Rigby, Jr. and Wolberg |
| 1988 | Marsupialia Rowe p. 245 figs. Figure 3 |
| 1993 | Marsupialia Cifelli p. 9415 |
| 1994 | Marsupialia Springer et al. p. 86 |
| 1997 | Marsupialia Brammall and Archer |
| 1997 | Ideodelphys McKenna and Bell |
| 1997 | Marsupialia McKenna and Bell |
| 1998 | Marsupialia Kirsch and Mayer p. 1234 |
| 2003 | Marsupialia Luo et al. p. 1938 |
| 2004 | Marsupialia Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 443, 448-449 |
| 2007 | Marsupialia Davis p. 218 |
| 2007 | Marsupialia Goin et al. |
| 2007 | Marsupialia Sánchez-Villagra et al. p. 321 |
| 2008 | Marsupialia Beck et al. p. 750 |
| 2009 | Marsupialia Horovitz et al. p. 2 |
| 2010 | Marsupialia Kramarz et al. |
| 2010 | Marsupialia Ladaveze and Muizon |
| 2011 | Marsupialia Luo et al. p. 444 |
| 2011 | Marsupialia Oliveira and Goin |
| 2014 | Marsupialia Vianey-Liaud et al. p. 576 |
| 2016 | Marsupialia Gillespie et al. |
| 2016 | Marsupialia Wilson et al. |
| 2017 | Marsupialia Engelman et al. |
| 2022 | Marsupialia Velazco et al. figs. Fig. 1 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Infracl. Marsupialia Illiger 1811 [marsupial]
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Superor. Diprotodonta Owen 1866
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Superfm. †Petauroidea Gill 1872
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Fm. †Pilkipildridae Archer et al. 1987
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G. †Dilgaringa Archer et al. 1987
G. †Djilgaringa Archer et al. 1987
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†Djilgaringa gillespiei Archer et al. 1987
†Djilgaringa thompsoni Archer et al. 1987
G. †Pilkipildra Archer et al. 1987
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†Pilkipildra handi Archer et al. 1987
†Pilkipildra taylori Archer et al. 1987
Invalid names: Thylacoleoidea Gill 1872 [empty]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available