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Taxon: Order Marsupialia Jameson, 1818 (mammal)
Classification by:

Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 - mammals
Count: 21o19f27g86s1ss; †2f2g2s
   Order Marsupialia Jameson, 1818 - marsupials see Cohort Marsupialia Jameson, 1818
  Count: [s] 15f;74g;269s;10ss; ‡1f;4g;12s;1ss
     01 Family Didelphidae Gray, 1821 - American opossums
    Count: [*] 11g;77s
     02 Family Caenolestidae Trouessart, 1898 - "shrew" opossums
    Count: [*] 2g;7s
     03 Family Microbiotheriidae Ameghino, 1887
    Count: [*] 1g;1s
     04 Family ‡Thylacinidae Bonaparte, 1838
    Count: [*] ‡1g;1s
     05 Family Dasyuridae Goldfuss, 1820 - marsupial "mice" and "cats", and Tasmanian devil
    Count: [s] 17g;58s;1ss
     06 Family Myrmecobiidae Waterhouse, 1841
    Count: [s] 1g;1s;2ss
     07 Family Peramelidae Gray, 1825 - bandicoots
    Count: [*] 5g;18s; ‡2g;3s
     08 Family Thylacomyidae Bensley, 1903 - rabbit-bandicoots
    Count: [*] 1g;1s; ‡1s
     09 Family Notoryctidae Ogilby, 1892
    Count: [*] 1g;1s
     10 Family Phascolarctidae Owen, 1839
    Count: -
     11 Family Vombatidae Burnett, 1830 - wombats
    Count: [*] 2g;3s
     12 Family Phalangeridae Thomas, 1888 - possums and cuscuses
    Count: [*] 6g;20s
     13 Family Petauridae Bonaparte, 1838 - gliding, ring-tailed, and striped possums
    Count: [s] 6g;23s;1ss
     14 Family Burramyidae Broom, 1898 - pygmy possums
    Count: [*] 4g;7s
     15 Family Macropodidae Gray, 1821 - wallabies and kangaroos
    Count: -
     16 Family Tarsipedidae Gervais & Verreaux, 1842
    Count: -

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