Namilamadeta

Namilamadeta
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: †Wynyardiidae
Genus: †Namilamadeta
Rich & Archer, 1979[1]
Type species
†Namilamadeta snideri
Rich & Archer, 1979
Other species
  • †N. albivenator Pledge, 2005
  • †N. crassirostrum Pledge, 2005
  • †N. superior Pledge, 2005

Namilamadeta is an extinct genus of herbivorous marsupial from Australia that was around the size of a dog.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Rich, T.H.V.; Archer, M. (1 January 1979). "Namilamadeta snideri, a new diprotodontan (Marsupialia, Vombatoidea) from the medial Miocene of South Australia". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 3 (3): 197–208. Bibcode:1979Alch....3..197R. doi:10.1080/03115517908527793. ISSN 0311-5518.
  2. ^ John A. Long, Michael Archer (2002). Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution. UNSW Press. pp. 117–19. ISBN 0868404357.
  3. ^ Pledge, N.S. (2005). "The Riversleigh wynyardiids". Alcheringa: Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 51 (1): 135–169. ISSN 0079-8835.


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