Yarala Muirhead and Filan 1995 (marsupial)

Mammalia - Peramelemorphia - Yaralidae

Full reference: J. Muirhead and S. Filan. 1995. Yarala burchfieldi, a Plesiomorphic Bandicoot (Marsupialia, Peramelemorphia) from Oligo- Miocene Deposits of Riversleigh, Northwestern Queensland. Journal of Paleontology 69(1):127-134

Parent taxon: Yaralidae according to J. Muirhead 2000

See also Muirhead and Filan 1995

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Yarala burchfieldi Yarala kida

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Type: Yarala burchfieldi

Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Australia (2 collections)

• Oligocene of Australia (1)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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