Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Vombatidae
Full reference: J. H. Hope and H. E. Wilkinson. 1982. Warendja wakefieldi, a new genus of wombat (Maruspialia , Vombatidae) from Pleistocene sediments in McEacherns Cave, western Victoria. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 43:109-120
Parent taxon: Vombatidae according to R. M. D. Beck et al. 2020
See also Hope and Wilkinson 1982, Myers et al. 2001 and Wells 1989
Sister taxa: Lasiorhinus, Nimbavombatus, Phascolomys, Phascolonus, Ramsayia, Rhizophascolonus, Sedophascolomys, Vombatus
Subtaxa: Warendja encorensis Warendja wakefieldi
Type: Warendja wakefieldi
Ecology: scansorial herbivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (3 collections)
• Miocene of Australia (1)
Total: 4 collections including 5 occurrences
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