Yalkaparidon

Yalkaparidon
Temporal range: Oligocene - Miocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Yalkaparidontia
Archer, Hand & Godthelp, 1988
Family: Yalkaparidontidae
Archer, Hand & Godthelp, 1988
Genus: Yalkaparidon
Archer, Hand & Godthelp, 1988
Species
  • Yalkaparidon coheni
  • Yalkaparidon jonesi

Yalkaparidon is an extinct genus of Australian marsupials, first described in 1988 and known only from the Oligo-Miocene deposits of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia.[1]

  1. ^ Archer M; Hand, Suzanne J. & Godthelp H. [1991] 2000. Australia's lost world: Riversleigh, World Heritage Site. Reed, Sydney. p94 "Thingodonta: off the scale of the unexpected".

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