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Metatheria

Metatheria is a mammalian clade that includes all mammals more closely related to marsupials than to placentals. First proposed by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1880, it is a slightly more inclusive group than the marsupials; it contains all marsupials as well as many extinct non-marsupial relatives.

[ "Phanerozoic", "Marsupial", "Taxon", "Borhyaenidae", "Herpetotheriidae", "Sparassodonta", "Proborhyaenidae", "Pucadelphys" ]
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