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Extinct genus of marsupials

Namilamadeta
Temporal range: Late Oligocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Wynyardiidae
Genus: Namilamadeta
Rich & Archer, 1979
Species

N. snideri
N. albivenator
N. superior
N. crassirostrum

Namilamadeta is an extinct genus of herbivorous marsupial from Australia that was around the size of a dog.

References

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
Vombatiformes
Thylacoleonidae
Phascolarctidae
Vombatomorphia
Ilariidae
Wynyardiidae
Vombatoidea
Vombatidae
Diprotodontoidea
Palorchestidae
Diprotodontidae
Thylacoleo carnifex Diprotodon optatum
Taxon identifiers
Namilamadeta


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