†subfamily Decastinae Ameghino 1894 (marsupial)
Mammalia - Paucituberculata - Palaeothentidae
Alternative spelling: Decastidae
Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1894. Enumeration synoptique des especes de mammifères fossiles des formations éocènes de Patagonie. Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias en Cordoba (Republica Argentina) 13:259-452
Parent taxon: Palaeothentidae according to R. K. Engelman et al. 2017
See also Ameghino 1894
Sister taxa: Acdestinae, Acdestis, Antawallathentes, Chimeralestes, Palaeothentes, Palaeothentinae, Parabderites, Sasawatsu, Titanothentes
Subtaxa: Dipilus Metriodromus
Ecology: scansorial omnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Decastinae in the database