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Extinct genus of marsupials

Muramura
Temporal range: Late Oligocene-Pliocene
Scientific classification Edit this 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. 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.
Vombatiformes
Thylacoleonidae
Phascolarctidae
Vombatomorphia
Ilariidae
Wynyardiidae
Vombatoidea
Vombatidae
Diprotodontoidea
Palorchestidae
Diprotodontidae
Thylacoleo carnifex Diprotodon optatum
Taxon identifiers
Muramura


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