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Marsupialia,
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CONTENTS:
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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, and †Yalkaparidontia.
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<paragraph blockId="197.[684,1214,225,1738]" pageId="197" pageNumber="197">STEM AGE: 59.7 Mya (95% HPD: 55.665.8 Mya).</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="197.[684,1214,225,1738]" pageId="197" pageNumber="197">CROWN AGE: 56.2 Mya (95% HPD: 54.758.6 Mya).</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="197.[684,1214,225,1738]" pageId="197" pageNumber="197">UNAMBIGUOUS CRANIODENTAL SYNAPOMORPHIES: Lower molars without a posterior cingulid (char. 180: 1→0; ci = 0.333).</paragraph>
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COMMENTS: As noted in our introduction, most recent authors restrict
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to the metatherian crown clade, and we follow the node-based definition of
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proposed by
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: the least inclusive clade containing
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,
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. By contrast, †
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, †
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, and †
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have consistently fallen outside
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in most published analyses (
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. Notable exceptions to this widespread consensus (
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) are discussed in the account for †
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<emphasis box="[738,871,1251,1275]" italics="true" pageId="197" pageNumber="197">Pucadelphys</emphasis>
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in appendix 1).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis box="[730,911,1284,1308]" italics="true" pageId="197" pageNumber="197">Mimoperadectes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
also falls outside
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in all our craniodental (figs. 30, 31) and total-evidence (figs. 32,
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) analyses. This result conflicts with
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, who recovered †
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<emphasis box="[814,988,1416,1440]" italics="true" pageId="197" pageNumber="197">Mimoperadectes</emphasis>
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as a stem didelphimorphian, but it agrees with most subsequent studies (
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), which have consistently found that †
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<emphasis box="[1035,1212,1680,1704]" italics="true" pageId="197" pageNumber="197">Mimoperadectes</emphasis>
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and other alleged peradectids are outside the metatherian crown clade.
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In particular, as we discussed above (see char. 55), †
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appears to lack any kind of tympanic process or bulla enclosing the hypotympanic sinus ventrally, as do our outgroup terminals †
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="198" pageNumber="198">Pucadelphys</emphasis>
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, †
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<emphasis box="[184,301,391,415]" italics="true" pageId="198" pageNumber="198">Mayulestes</emphasis>
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, and †
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<emphasis box="[381,491,391,415]" italics="true" pageId="198" pageNumber="198">Allqokirus</emphasis>
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, plus several other nonmarsupial metatherians not included here (
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;
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). However, the polarity of this feature is debated, and there is clear evidence of homoplasy within Metatheria (KielanJaworowska and Nessov, 1990: 7;
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: char. 50;
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: supplementary information;
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;
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).
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Although these accounts include only clades that we consider well supported by available evidence, a list of unambiguous craniodental synapomorphies for all nodes in our dated total-evidence analysis is provided in supplementary file S3.
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Our craniodental and undated total-evidence analyses (figs. 3032) place †
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in an unresolved polytomy with Recent marsupials. In contrast to our outgroup terminals and †
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, †
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has an ossified hypotympanic sinus floor, which optimizes as an unambiguous synapomorphy of †
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="198" pageNumber="198">Herpetotherium</emphasis>
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+
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in our results (see supplementary file S
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the online supplement: https:// doi.org/10.5531/sd.sp.54). However, most recent published phylogenetic analyses place †
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outside
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(
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). Based on these studies, and to enable us to calibrate the age of
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, we constrained †
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to fall outside the crown clade in our dated totalevidence analysis.
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With †
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constrained to fall outside
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, only loss of the posterior cingulid optimizes as an unambiguous synapomorphy for the crown clade. Although presence or absence of a posterior cingulid might be a useful criterion for distinguishing marsupials from nonmarsupial marsupialiforms (
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), this structure was subsequently reacquired by dasyuromorphians (see below) and by the balbarid macropodiform †
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="198" pageNumber="198">Balbaroo</emphasis>
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(and other balbarids not included here; see
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: fig. 7, who referred to the posterior cingulid as the “hypocingulid”). Three fossil Australian taxa that have not been included here due to their incompleteness—†
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from the early Eocene Tingamarra fauna in northeastern
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and its probable relatives †
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<emphasis box="[754,989,722,746]" italics="true" pageId="198" pageNumber="198">Ankotarinja tirarensis</emphasis>
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and †
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="198" pageNumber="198">Keeuna woodburnei</emphasis>
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from the late Oligocene Etadunna Formation of central
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—also have a posterior cingulid and appear to comprise a clade of stem australidelphians (
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), thus revealing additional homoplasy.
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As already noted (see above and table 6), our late Palaeoceneearly Eocene estimate for the age of the most recent common ancestor of
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). However, it is more congruent with the recent phylogenomic study of ÁlvarezCarretero et al. (2021).
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