Rank Family Subclass Theria | Phylum Chordata | |
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Similar Deltatheridium, Deltatheroida, Theria, Kennalestes, Zalambdalestidae |
Deltatheridiidae is an extinct family of basal carnivorous metatherians that lived in the Cretaceous and were closely related to marsupials. Their fossils are restricted to Central Asia (Mongolia and Uzbekistan) and North America (United States - Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Wyoming). They mostly disappeared in the KT event, but a ghost lineage, currently represented by Gurbanodelta, survived until the late Paleocene by decreasing in size and becoming insectivorous.
The family consist in six genera:
References
Deltatheridiidae Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA