Suborder Polyprotodontia Owen 1866 (marsupial)
Alternative spelling: Polyprotodonta
Parent taxon: Marsupialia according to O. P. Hay 1930
See also Cope 1889, Crochet 1995, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Gadow 1898, Gregory 1910, Hay 1902, Jaekel 1911, Lambe 1908, Parker and Haswell 1897 and Simpson 1928
Sister taxa: Marsupicarnivora, Macrotarsi, Leptodactyla, Phalangistadae
Subtaxa: Didelphoidae Trituberculata
Ecology: scansorial omnivore