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Total clade: Metatheria Huxley 1880 [O'Leary, Allard, Novacek, Meng & Gatesy 2004] (mammal)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia

Phylogeny

Total clade Ref: M.A. O'Leary et al., 2013: table S4 (p. 100: "Total clade of Marsupialia").
Branch-based clade Ref: M.A. O'Leary et al., 2004: 494 ("stem-based taxa").

First representative

†Sinodelphys szalayi Z.-X. Luo et al., 2003 Ref: M.A. O'Leary et al., 2013: table S2 (p. 85).

Defined by included taxon (and all taxa more closely related to it than to the excluded taxon)

Didelphis virginiana Kerr, 1792 Ref: M.A. O'Leary et al., 2004: 494.

Defined by excluded taxon

Elephas maximus Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: M.A. O'Leary et al., 2004: 494.

Current position

Theria (Clade) Parker & Haswell 1897 [McKenna 1975] Ref: É.V. Oliveira et al., 2021: fig. 6.

Historical positions

Theria (Clade) Parker & Haswell 1897 [McKenna 1975] Ref: É.V. Oliveira et al., 2021: 4, fig. 6.
Mammalia (Clade) Linnaeus 1758 [Rowe 1988], nom. cl. inval. Ref: L.M. Carneiro et al., 2018: 122. [rough position] [inferred]
Theria (Clade) Parker & Haswell 1897 [McKenna 1975] Ref: M.A. O'Leary et al., 2013: table S4 (p. 100). [implicit]
Theria (Clade) Parker & Haswell 1897 [McKenna 1975] Ref: M.A. O'Leary et al., 2004: fig. 28.2.
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