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词条 Asiadelphia
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{{Taxobox
| name = Asiadelphia
| fossil_range = Late Cretaceous (Coniacian-Campanian) {{Fossil range|89.3|70.6}}
| image = File:Asiatherium reshetovi holotype cast - ZooKeys 465 (skull).jpg
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Chordata
| classis = Mammalia
| subclassis = Theria
| infraclassis = Metatheria
| ordo = †Asiadelphia
| ordo_authority = Trofimov and Szalay, 1994
| familia = †Asiatheriidae
| familia_authority = Trofimov and Szalay, 1994
|subdivision_ranks=Genera
|subdivision=
  • Kokopellia juddi Cifelli 1993
  • Asiatherium reshetovi Trofimov & Szalay 1994

}}

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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4 : Prehistoric metatherians|Coniacian genus first appearances|Campanian genus extinctions|Fossil taxa described in 1994

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