Muramura
Muramura Temporal range: Late Oligocene-Pliocene | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Diprotodontia |
Family: | †Wynyardiidae |
Genus: | †Muramura Pledge, 1987 |
Species | |
M. williamsi |
Muramura williamsi is an extinct Australian wynardiid marsupial, related to the modern koala and wombat. Around the size of a dog, it was a herbivore.[1] Fossils range in age from the Late Oligocene to the Pliocene in age.
References
[edit]- ^ John A. Long, Michael Archer (2002). Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution. UNSW Press. p. 117. ISBN 0868404357.