Meniscolophus
Meniscolophus | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Diprotodontia |
Family: | †Diprotodontidae |
Genus: | †Meniscolophus Stirton, 1955 |
Species: | †M. mawsoni |
Binomial name | |
†Meniscolophus mawsoni Stirton, 1955 |
Meniscolophus is an extinct genus of Diprotodontia known from the early Pliocene of the Tirari Desert, South Australia.
References
[edit]- Long, J., Archer, M., Flannery, T., & Hand, S. (2002) Prehistoric mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One hundred million years of evolution. University of New South Wales Press (page 79)