Wakaleo oldfieldi Clemens and Plane 1974 (diprotodont marsupial)

Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Thylacoleonidae

Full reference: W. A. Clemens and M. Plane. 1974. Mid'Tertiary Thylacoleonidae (Marsupialia, Mammalia). Journal of Paleontology 48(4):652-660

Belongs to Wakaleo according to A. K. Gillespie et al. 2019

See also Archer and Rich 1982 and Gillespie et al. 2014

Sister taxa: Wakaleo alcootaensis, Wakaleo pitikantensis, Wakaleo schouteni, Wakaleo vanderleueri

Type specimen: SAM P 17925, a mandible (left dentary fragment containing incison, P3, M1 and alveoli from M2, M3). Its type locality is Leaf locality, Lake Ngapakaldi, which is in an Oligocene/Miocene fluvial-lacustrine horizon in the Wipajiri Formation of Australia.

Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Australia (5 collections)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.