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,
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, and
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.
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AGE: 55.1 Mya (95%
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AGE: 48.0 Mya (95%
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UNAMBIGUOUS CRANIODENTAL
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COMMENTS: Recent phylogenetic analyses based on molecular data (e.g.,
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;
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Beck et al., 2008
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) but not all (e.g.,
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) recent morphological analyses. This overall pattern is confirmed here: our morphological analyses did not recover australidelphian monophyly (figs. 30, 31), whereas it was strongly supported in all our molecular (figs. 2729) and total evidence (figs. 32,
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) analyses. Given that
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first proposed monophyly of Australidelphia based primarily on shared derived features of the tarsus (specifically the presence of a continuous lower ankle joint, and a tripartite calcaneocuboid facet; see also
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;
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), the addition of postcranial characters to our craniodental matrix may ultimately result in morphological support for Australidelphia (as in Horovitz and SánchezVillagra, 2003).
</paragraph>
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No craniodental feature optimizes as an unambiguous synapomorphy of Australidelphia in our dated total-evidence analysis, but three optimize as synapomorphies under Accelerated Transformation—extracranial course of mandibular nerve fully enclosed by medial outgrowths of the auditory bulla (char. 52: 0→1; ci = 0.231); posterior limb of ectotympanic in contact with, but suturally distinct from, pars canalicularis of the petrosal and/or posttympanic process of the squamosal (char. 60: 0→1; ci = 0.333); and prootic canal foramen on tympanic face of petrosal absent (char. 69: 0→1; ci = 0.083)—but all three traits show high levels of homoplasy and undergo subsequent reversals within Australidelphia (see file S
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the online supplement). Our failure to identify compelling craniodental synapomorphies for Australidelphia likely reflects the fact that the ancestral australidelphian probably had a relatively generalized cranium and dentition that was little different from the plesiomorphic marsupial condition (see
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) and that different lineages within Australidelphia subsequently evolved very disparate apomorphies of the dentition, cranium, or both (see also comments by
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).
</paragraph>
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Our estimate for the first split within Australidelphia is in the early to middle Eocene. This is younger than the early or middle Paleocene †
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<emphasis box="[185,418,391,415]" italics="true" pageId="206" pageNumber="206">Khasia cordillerensis</emphasis>
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, a taxon that was originally described as a microbiotherian (
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; see also
<bibRefCitation author="Muizon, C. de" box="[476,631,457,481]" pageId="206" pageNumber="206" pagination="575 - 624" refId="ref217663" refString="Muizon, C. de. 1991. La fauna de mamiferos de Tiupampa (Paleoceno Inferior, Formacion Santa Lucia), Bolivia. In R. Suarez-Soruco (editor), Fosiles y facies de Bolivia, vol. 1. Vertebrados: 575 - 624. Santa Cruz, Bolivia: Revista Technica de Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos." type="book chapter" year="1991">Muizon, 1991</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Cozzuol, M. A. &amp; F. Goin &amp; M. De Los Reyes &amp; A. Ranzi" box="[109,302,490,514]" pageId="206" pageNumber="206" pagination="663 - 667" refId="ref198725" refString="Cozzuol, M. A., F. Goin, M. De Los Reyes, and A. Ranzi. 2006. The oldest species of Didelphis (Mammalia, Marsupialia, Didelphidae), from the late Miocene of Amazonia. Journal of Mammalogy 87 (4): 663 - 667." type="journal article" year="2006">Goin et al., 2006</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Muizon, C. de &amp; S. Ladeveze &amp; C. Selva &amp; R. Vignaud &amp; F. Goussard" box="[315,537,490,514]" pageId="206" pageNumber="206" pagination="363 - 459" refId="ref218213" refString="Muizon, C. de, S. Ladeveze, C. Selva, R. Vignaud, and F. Goussard. 2018. Allqokirus australis (Sparassodonta, Metatheria) from the early Palaeocene of Tiupampa (Bolivia) and the rise of the metatherian carnivorous radiation in South America. Geodiversitas 40 (16): 363 - 459." type="journal article" year="2018">Muizon et al., 2018</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Ladeveze, S. &amp; C. Selva &amp; C. de Muizon" pageId="206" pageNumber="206" pagination="1463 - 1479" refId="ref212907" refString="Ladeveze, S., C. Selva, and C. de Muizon. 2020. What are &quot; opossum-like &quot; fossils? The phylogeny of herpetotheriid and peradectid metatherians, based on new features from the petrosal anatomy. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 18 (17): 1463 - 1479." type="journal article" year="2020">Muizon and Ladevèze, 2020</bibRefCitation>
) and hence a crown-clade australidelphian. However, as noted above, several subsequent authors have argued that †
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="206" pageNumber="206">Khasia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is more likely a “pediomyoid” (
<bibRefCitation author="Oliveira and Goin" firstAuthor="Oliveira" pageId="206" pageNumber="206" pagination="299 - 320" refId="ref220101" refString="Oliveira, E. V., and F. J. Goin. 2006. Marsupiais do inicio do Terciario do Brasil: origem, irradiacao e historia biogeografica. In N. C. Caceres and E. L. A. Monteiro Filho (editors), Os Marsupiais do Brasil: biologia, ecologia e evolucao: 299 - 320. Campo Grande: UFMS." type="book chapter" year="2006">Oliveira and Goin, 2006</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Goin, F. J. &amp; M. O. Woodburne &amp; A. N. Zimicz &amp; G. M. Martin &amp; L. Chornogubsky" box="[244,428,655,679]" pageId="206" pageNumber="206" refId="ref207099" refString="Goin, F. J., M. O. Woodburne, A. N. Zimicz, G. M. Martin, and L. Chornogubsky. 2016. A brief history of South American metatherians: Evolutionary contexts and intercontinental dispersals. Dordrecht: Springer." type="book" year="2016">Goin et al., 2016</bibRefCitation>
), a hypothesis supported by the morphological phylogenetic analysis of
<bibRefCitation author="Carneiro, L. M. &amp; E. V. Oliveira &amp; F. J. Goin" box="[190,440,722,746]" pageId="206" pageNumber="206" pagination="120 - 131" refId="ref196583" refString="Carneiro, L. M., E. V. Oliveira, and F. J. Goin. 2018. Austropediomys marshalli gen. et sp. nov., a new Pediomyoidea (Mammalia, Metatheria) from the Paleogene of Brazil: paleobiogeographic implications. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 21 (2): 120 - 131." type="journal article" year="2018">Carneiro et al. (2018)</bibRefCitation>
. †
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<emphasis box="[467,543,722,746]" italics="true" pageId="206" pageNumber="206">Khasia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has not been included here because it is represented only by dental specimens (
<bibRefCitation author="Marshall, L. G. &amp; C. de Muizon" pageId="206" pageNumber="206" pagination="23 - 55" refId="ref215460" refString="Marshall, L. G., and C. de Muizon. 1988. The dawn of the age of mammals in South America. National Geographic Research 4 (1): 23 - 55." type="journal article" year="1988">Marshall and Muizon, 1988</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Muizon, C. de" box="[276,434,821,845]" pageId="206" pageNumber="206" pagination="575 - 624" refId="ref217663" refString="Muizon, C. de. 1991. La fauna de mamiferos de Tiupampa (Paleoceno Inferior, Formacion Santa Lucia), Bolivia. In R. Suarez-Soruco (editor), Fosiles y facies de Bolivia, vol. 1. Vertebrados: 575 - 624. Santa Cruz, Bolivia: Revista Technica de Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos." type="book chapter" year="1991">Muizon, 1991</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
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If †
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<emphasis box="[181,258,854,878]" italics="true" pageId="206" pageNumber="206">Khasia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is discounted, the oldest known australidelphian is probably †
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="206" pageNumber="206">Djarthia murgonensis</emphasis>
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from the Tingamarra fossil site in eastern
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, which has been radiometrically dated as earliest Eocene (~54.6 Mya; (
<bibRefCitation author="Godthelp, H. &amp; M. Archer &amp; R. L. Cifelli &amp; S. J. Hand &amp; C. F. Gilkeson" pageId="206" pageNumber="206" pagination="514 - 516" refId="ref205513" refString="Godthelp, H., M. Archer, R. L. Cifelli, S. J. Hand, and C. F. Gilkeson. 1992. Earliest known Australian Tertiary mammal fauna. Nature 356: 514 - 516." type="journal article" year="1992">Godthelp et al., 1992</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Godthelp, H. &amp; S. Wroe &amp; M. Archer" box="[320,567,1019,1043]" pageId="206" pageNumber="206" pagination="289 - 313" refId="ref205557" refString="Godthelp, H., S. Wroe, and M. Archer. 1999. A new marsupial from the early Eocene Tingamarra Local Fauna of Murgon, southeastern Queensland: a prototypical Australian marsupial? Journal of Mammalian Evolution 6 (3): 289 - 313." type="journal article" year="1999">Godthelp et al., 1999</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Beck, R. M. D. &amp; H. Godthelp &amp; V. Weisbecker &amp; M. Archer &amp; S. J. Hand" pageId="206" pageNumber="206" pagination="1858" refId="ref192866" refString="Beck, R. M. D., H. Godthelp, V. Weisbecker, M. Archer, and S. J. Hand. 2008 a. Australia's oldest marsupial fossils and their biogeographical implications. PLoS One 3 (3): e 1858." type="journal article" year="2008">Beck et al., 2008a</bibRefCitation>
). We have not included †
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<emphasis box="[540,636,1052,1076]" italics="true" pageId="206" pageNumber="206">Djarthia</emphasis>
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here due to its incompleteness (the only craniodental remains are incomplete dental specimens and isolated petrosals;
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;
<bibRefCitation author="Beck, R. M. D. &amp; H. Godthelp &amp; V. Weisbecker &amp; M. Archer &amp; S. J. Hand" box="[180,392,1184,1209]" pageId="206" pageNumber="206" pagination="1858" refId="ref192866" refString="Beck, R. M. D., H. Godthelp, V. Weisbecker, M. Archer, and S. J. Hand. 2008 a. Australia's oldest marsupial fossils and their biogeographical implications. PLoS One 3 (3): e 1858." type="journal article" year="2008">Beck et al., 2008a</bibRefCitation>
), but isolated tarsals referred to this taxon exhibit characteristic australidelphian synapomorphies (
<bibRefCitation author="Beck, R. M. D. &amp; H. Godthelp &amp; V. Weisbecker &amp; M. Archer &amp; S. J. Hand" pageId="206" pageNumber="206" pagination="1858" refId="ref192866" refString="Beck, R. M. D., H. Godthelp, V. Weisbecker, M. Archer, and S. J. Hand. 2008 a. Australia's oldest marsupial fossils and their biogeographical implications. PLoS One 3 (3): e 1858." type="journal article" year="2008">Beck et al., 2008a</bibRefCitation>
). However, †
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<emphasis box="[360,461,1284,1308]" italics="true" pageId="206" pageNumber="206">Djarthia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
falls outside crown-clade Australidelphia in most published analyses (with the notable exception of
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: fig. 38, in which it is sister to
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), and its position is unresolved with respect to the crown clade in others (
<bibRefCitation author="Beck, R. M. D. &amp; H. Godthelp &amp; V. Weisbecker &amp; M. Archer &amp; S. J. Hand" box="[156,358,1482,1506]" pageId="206" pageNumber="206" pagination="1858" refId="ref192866" refString="Beck, R. M. D., H. Godthelp, V. Weisbecker, M. Archer, and S. J. Hand. 2008 a. Australia's oldest marsupial fossils and their biogeographical implications. PLoS One 3 (3): e 1858." type="journal article" year="2008">
Beck et al., 2008
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,
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;
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;
<bibRefCitation author="Lorente, M. &amp; L. Chornogubsky &amp; F. J. Goin" box="[109,332,1515,1539]" pageId="206" pageNumber="206" pagination="533 - 547" refId="ref213633" refString="Lorente, M., L. Chornogubsky, and F. J. Goin. 2016. On the existence of non-microbiotherian australidelphian marsupials (Diprotodontia) in the Eocene of Patagonia. Palaeontology 59 (4): 533 - 547." type="journal article" year="2016">Lorente et al., 2016</bibRefCitation>
;
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).
</paragraph>
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The next-oldest definitive australidelphian remains are isolated tarsals from the La Barda locality in
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, which has been radiometrically dated as middle Eocene (between ~48 and 43 Mya;
<bibRefCitation author="Tejedor" box="[200,405,1680,1705]" etAl="et al." firstAuthor="Tejedor" pageId="206" pageNumber="206" pagination="1 - 43" refId="ref229849" refString="Tejedor, M. F., et al. 2009. New early Eocene mammalian fauna from western Patagonia, Argentina. American Museum Novitates 3638: 1 - 43." type="journal article" year="2009">Tejedor et al., 2009</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Lorente, M. &amp; L. Chornogubsky &amp; F. J. Goin" box="[415,625,1680,1704]" pageId="206" pageNumber="206" pagination="533 - 547" refId="ref213633" refString="Lorente, M., L. Chornogubsky, and F. J. Goin. 2016. On the existence of non-microbiotherian australidelphian marsupials (Diprotodontia) in the Eocene of Patagonia. Palaeontology 59 (4): 533 - 547." type="journal article" year="2016">Lorente et al., 2016</bibRefCitation>
). The La Barda australidelphian tarsals fell within
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(members of which are otherwise known only from
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, New
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, and adjacent islands) in the phylogenetic analysis of
<bibRefCitation author="Lorente, M. &amp; L. Chornogubsky &amp; F. J. Goin" box="[684,917,325,349]" pageId="206" pageNumber="206" pagination="533 - 547" refId="ref213633" refString="Lorente, M., L. Chornogubsky, and F. J. Goin. 2016. On the existence of non-microbiotherian australidelphian marsupials (Diprotodontia) in the Eocene of Patagonia. Palaeontology 59 (4): 533 - 547." type="journal article" year="2016">Lorente et al. (2016)</bibRefCitation>
, but we consider that this biogeographically anomalous relationship warrants further testing.
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The woodburnodontid microbiotherian †
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from the Cucullaea I Allomember of the La Meseta Formation on Seymour Island, off the Antarctic Penninsula, is a more compelling candidate for the oldest definitive crown-clade australidelphian because it preserves distinctive dental features that are characteristic of microbiotherians (
<bibRefCitation author="Goin, F. J." pageId="206" pageNumber="206" pagination="597 - 603" refId="ref206658" refString="Goin, F. J., et al. 2007 c. New marsupial (Mammalia) from the Eocene of Antarctica, and the origins and affinities of the Microbiotheria. Revista de la Asociacion Geologica Argentina 62 (4): 597 - 603." type="journal article" year="2007">Goin et al., 2007c</bibRefCitation>
), and it has been recovered within
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in several phylogenetic analyses (
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;
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). The age of the Cucullaea I Allomember has proved controversial (
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;
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), but it now appears to be about 40 Mya (
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). This postdates our estimate for the first divergence within Australidelphia (see above) and also for the split between
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and
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(median = 45.6 Mya; 95%
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: 41.448.8 Mya).
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Older putative microbiotherians have been reported from the early Eocene (probably 51.4 56.0 Mya;
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) Las
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Local Fauna of southern
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(
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), which is incongruent with our estimate for the time of the Microbiotheria-Diprotodontia split, but these potentially important fossils have yet to be described.
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