Wallabia kitcheneri Flannery 1989 (swamp wallaby)

Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Macropodidae

Full reference: T. F. Flannery. 1989. A new species of Wallabia (Macropodinae: Marsupialia) from Pleistocene deposits in Mammoth Cave, southwestern Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 14:299-307

Belongs to Wallabia according to T. F. Flannery 1989

Sister taxon: Wallabia bicolor

Type specimen: WAM 66.9.47, a mandible (fragmentary right dentary with P/3 (in crypt), P/2, M/1-4, with M/5 in crypt). Its type locality is Mammoth Cave, which is in a Pleistocene cave horizon in Australia.

Ecology: saltatorial herbivore

Distribution: found only at Mammoth Cave

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