Mammalia - Peramelemorphia

Full reference: P. M. Chamberlain, K. J. Travouillon, M. Archer and S. J. Hand. 2015. Kutjamarcoot brevirostrum gen. et sp. nov., a new short-snouted, early Miocene bandicoot (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia) from the Kutjamarpu Local Fauna (Wipajiri Formation) in South Australia. Alcheringa 40:1-10

Parent taxon: Perameloidea according to P. M. Chamberlain et al. 2015

Sister taxa: Chaeropodidae, Peramelidae, Silvicultor, Thylacomyidae

Subtaxa: Kutjamarcoot brevirostrum

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Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution: found only at Leaf locality, Lake Ngapakaldi (Oligocene to Miocene of Australia)

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