Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals
   Subclass Boreosphenida Luo, Cifelli & Kielan-Jaworowska, 2001 - tribotherians see Clade Boreosphenida Luo, Cifelli & Kielan-Jaworowska 2001
     Infraclass Metatheria Huxley, 1880
       Cohort Marsupialia Jameson, 1818 - marsupials
         Superorder "Ameridelphia" Szalay, 1982 [paraphyletic] see Clade Ameridelphia Szalay 1982
           Order "Didelphimorphia" Gill, 1872 [paraphyletic]
             [Family "Marmosidae"]
               [Subfamily †"Adinodontinae" Hershkovitz, 1995, nom. dub.]
                 [Genus †Adinodon Hershkovitz, 1995, nom. dub.]
                   [†Adinodon pattersoni Hershkovitz, 1995, nom. dub.]