Family Peramelidae Gray 1825 (bandicoot)

Mammalia - Peramelemorphia - Peramelidae

Synonym: Peramelina Gray 1825

Parent taxon: Perameloidea according to K. J. Travouillon et al. 2017

See also Bonaparte 1850, Cope 1889, Dawson et al. 1999, Flower 1883, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Gadow 1898, Gray 1825, Marshall 1974, McKenna and Bell 1997, Nowak 1991, Springer et al. 1994, Travouillon et al. 2014 and Wilson and Reeder 2005

Sister taxa: Chaeropodidae, Kutjamarcoot, Silvicultor, Thylacomyidae

Subtaxa: Crash Echymiperinae Isoodon Perameles Peramelinae Peroryctes Peroryctinae Thylacis

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Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (38 collections)

• Pliocene of Australia (10)

• Miocene of Australia (3)

Total: 51 collections including 82 occurrences

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