Hondadelphys

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| fossil_range = Mid-Miocene (Laventan)
~{{fossil range|13.8|11.8}}

| image = Hondadelphys fieldsi.jpg

| image_caption = Basicranium of Hondadelphys

| parent_authority = Marshall et al., 1990

| taxon = Hondadelphys

| authority = Marshall, 1976

| type_species = Hondadelphys fieldsi

| type_species_authority = Marshall, 1976

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Hondadelphys is an extinct genus of carnivorous sparassodonts, known from the Middle Miocene of Colombia. The type species, H. fieldsi, was described in 1976 from the fossil locality of La Venta, which hosts fossils from the Villavieja Formation.{{cite journal|last=Marshall|first=Larry G.|title=New Didelphine Marsupials from the La Venta Fauna (Miocene) of Colombia, South America|journal=Journal of Paleontology|date=1976|volume=50|issue=3|pages=402–418|jstor=1303521}} Hondadelphys was originally interpreted as belonging to the opossum family Didelphidae, but subsequently assigned to its own family, Hondadelphidae and interpreted as a basal sparassodont.{{cite book|last1=Goin|first1=Francisco|editor1-last=Jones|editor1-first=Menna|editor2-last=Archer|editor2-first=Mike|editor3-last=Dickman|editor3-first=Chris|title=Predators with Pouches : The Biology of Carnivorous Marsupials|date=2003|publisher=CSIRO|location=Collingwood (Victoria)|isbn=978-0643066342|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5IqhZoTEF10C&q=Hondadelphys&pg=PT101|chapter=Early Marsupial Radiations in South America}} The genus name refers to the Honda Group, the stratigraphic group in which the fossils of this animal were first found, combined with delphys (Greek for "womb", a common suffix used for opossum-like metatherians).