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Shrew Opossums
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Shrew Opossums

Paucituberculata

Paucituberculata is an order of South American marsupials. Currently represented only by shrew opossums, over the course of the Cenozoic it included a wide variety of mammal species, including the Glires-like argyrolagoideans. The fossil record goes back to the Late Paleocene (Itaboraian in the SALMA classification).

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1 branches of this order, most-observed first · about 7 known species

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 43258.