Life reconstruction of Yalkaparidon coheni by Filipe Martinho
Scientific 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]
^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".
Yalkaparidon is an extinct genus of Australian marsupials, first described in 1988 and known only from the Oligo-Miocene deposits of Riversleigh, northwestern...
and Systematics of the Enigmatic Australian Oligo-Miocene Metatherian Yalkaparidon (Yalkaparidontidae; Yalkaparidontia; ?Australidelphia; Marsupialia)"...
Beck, R. M. D. (2009). "Was the Oligo-Miocene Australian metatherian Yalkaparidon a 'mammalian woodpecker'?". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society...
in the fossil record there is evidence of at least one distinct genus Yalkaparidon, in the early Miocene sediments in the Riversleigh deposit in northern...
Beck, R. M. D. (2009). "Was the Oligo-Miocene Australian metatherian Yalkaparidon a 'mammalian woodpecker'?". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society...
Chaney 1988 Family †Yalkaparidontidae Archer, Hand & Godthelp 1988 Genus †Yalkaparidon Archer, Hand & Godthelp 1988 [Thingodonta; Yalkaperidon (sic)] Family...
affinities. For now, Yingabalanara is included in its own order, Weirdodonta. Yalkaparidon, a contemporary Australian mammal of also uncertain affinities Archer...
wombat Wururoo, an ancient kangaroo Wyulda, an ancient brushtail possum Yalkaparidon, a bizarre marsupial Yarala, a tube-nosed bandicoot Yingabalanara richardsoni...
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