Cuscus superfamily - Cuscus superfamily

Japanese: クスクス上科 - くすくすじょうか
Cuscus superfamily - Cuscus superfamily

… Marsupials such as Eoderpis, a member of the opossum family, appeared in North America in the Upper Cretaceous, followed by several genera in Europe, but later became extinct and evolved in South America and Australia (Figure). In South America, the hyena-like Borhiena and the saber-toothed tiger-like Thylacosmilus appeared in the Miocene, and in Australia, the lion-sized Thylacoleo and the rhinoceros-sized Diprotodon (both from the Cuscoidea) appeared in the Pleistocene, but no fossils are known from before the Miocene. Modern species are of the Cuscoidea, whose second and third toes have fused together to form a comb for combing hair (one pair of lower incisors...)

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "Cuscus superfamily" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

… 有袋類はオポッサム科のエオデルピスなどが上部白亜紀に北アメリカに現れ,続いてヨーロッパにも数属が現れたが後に絶滅し,南アメリカとオーストラリアで進化した(図)。南アメリカでは中新世にハイエナに似たボルヒエナ,鮮新世に剣歯虎に似たチラコスミルスなどのボルヒエナ上科の猛獣も現れ,オーストラリアでは更新世に,ライオン大のチラコレオ,サイ大のディプロトドン(ともにクスクス上科)などが現れたが,中新世以前の化石は知られていない。 現生のものは,足の第2,3指が結合して毛をすく櫛(くし)に変化したクスクス上科(下の切歯は1対。…

※「クスクス上科」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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