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Super-family NOTORYCTOIDEA 

 Family i. Notoryctidae 



Suborder Diprotodontia 



Superfamily C^ENOLESTOIDEA 



Family i. Palaeothentidae ^Pal&oihentes 



^Abderites 

 Caznolestes 

 2. Garzoniidae 



Superfamily PHALANGEROIDEA 

 Family i. Phalangeridae 



2. fThylacoleonidae 



3. Macropodidae 



4. Phascolomyidae 



5. fDiprotodontidae 

 Suborder Allotheria 



Family i. fPlagiaulacidae 



SCOTT 1913 1 

 Order MARSUPIAIIA 



Suborder Polyprotodonta 

 Didelphiidae 

 Thylacynidas 

 Suborder Diprotodonia 

 Ceenolestidas 

 fGarzoniidae 

 Suborder Allotheria 



fPlagiaulacidse 

 fPolydolopidae 



DISTRIBUTION. 



The present known distribution of Canolestes (and Orolestes) is 

 shown by the accompanying map. Only a few localities are represented, 

 all Andean, and extending from the Venezuelan border on the north 

 nearly to the Bolivian boundary on the south. In the extensive regions 

 between these localities, no specimens have been obtained but it is not 

 'improbable that the animal has nearly or quite continuous range 

 throughout the central Andes so far as local conditions meet its needs. 



1 American forms only. 



