Microbiotheriidae, Ameghino, 1887

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Marsupialia, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 18-51 : 26

Family Microbiotheriidae

REVIEWED BY: C. A. Hill (CAH); J. A. W. Kirsch (JAWK); R. G. Van Gelder (RGVG).

COMMENT: Dromiciops was placed in this otherwise fossil family by Kirsch, 1977, in Hunsaker, ed., The Biology of the Marsupials, pp. 1 -50. Also see Marshall, 1978, Mamm. Species, 99:1, who included the Microbiotheriinae as a subfamily of the Didelphidae .