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--- history:evolution_mammals [2026/08/06 03:20] – [metatherians] gary1
+++ history:evolution_mammals [2026/08/06 03:24] (current) – [metatherians] gary1
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         *Dasyuromorphia
           * most of the **Australian carnivorous marsupials**
-          * quolls, dunnarts, the numbat, the Tasmanian devil, and the extinct thylacine
+          * Myrmecobius (numbat) 32-42mya
           * Thylacinus (the "marsupial tigers")
             * //Thylacinus macknessi// c16mya
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             * //Thylacinus cynocephalus// ("Tasmanian Tiger or Tasmanian Wolf or marsupial wolf")
               * died out in New Guinea and mainland Australia around 3,600–3,200 years ago, possibly because of the introduction of the dingo which never made it to Tasmania but became extinct (last one died in Hobart zoo in 1936) after bounty hunting in the 19th century by white settlers in Tasmania
+          * Dasyuridae
+            * Sminthopsis (dunnarts) - a male dunnart's Y chromosome is the smallest known mammalian Y chromosome
+            * Phascogale
+            * Dasyurini
+              * quoll
+              * Tasmanian devil
 =====eutherian mammals=====
   *evolved around 161mya