Muribacinus Temporal range: middle Miocene,
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Holotype and paratype specimens of Muribacinus. | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Dasyuromorphia |
Family: | †Thylacinidae |
Genus: | †Muribacinus |
Species: | †M. gadiyuli
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Binomial name | |
†Muribacinus gadiyuli Wroe, 1995
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Muribacinus is an extinct genus of thylacinid that lived during the middle Miocene in what is now northwestern Queensland, Australia. It was described in 1995 from remains collected at the Riversleigh World Heritage Area. Only one species is known, M. gadiyuli.