Muramura

Muramura
Temporal range: Late Oligocene-Pliocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: †Wynyardiidae
Genus: †
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

  1. ^ 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.


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