Namilamadeta is an extinct genus of herbivorous marsupial from Australia that was around the size of a dog.[2]
Namilamadeta Temporal range: Late Oligocene
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Diprotodontia |
Family: | †Wynyardiidae |
Genus: | †Namilamadeta Rich & Archer, 1979[1] |
Species | |
N. snideri |
References
edit- ^ Rich, T.H.V.; Archer, M. (1 January 1979). "Namilamadeta snideri, a new diprotodontan (Marsupialia, Vombatoidea) from the medial Miocene of South Australia". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 3 (3): 197–208. Bibcode:1979Alch....3..197R. doi:10.1080/03115517908527793. ISSN 0311-5518.
- ^ John A. Long, Michael Archer (2002). Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution. UNSW Press. pp. 117–19. ISBN 0868404357.