Asiadelphia
| Asiadelphia Temporal range: Late Cretaceous (Coniacian-Campanian) 89.3–70.6 Ma | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Subclass: | Theria |
| Infraclass: | Metatheria |
| Order: | †Asiadelphia Trofimov and Szalay, 1994 |
| Family: | †Asiatheriidae Trofimov and Szalay, 1994 |
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Asiadelphia ("Asian opossum") is an order of Cretaceous Metatherians. Different from the Ameridelphia, they lacked a prominent distolateral process on the scaphoid, and possessed a more slender fibula. The masseteric fossa is deeper in this group than the true Marsupials.
Further reading
Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, Richard L. Cifelli, and Zhe-Xi Luo, Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs: Origins, Evolution, and Structure (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), 15, 451-452.
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