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Watutia novaeguineae

Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Macropodidae

Taxonomy
Watutia novaeguineae was named by Flannery et al. (1989). Its type specimen is GMK52950, a maxilla (left maxillary fragment containing P3, M2-5), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Watut River, which is in a Pliocene fluvial-lacustrine siliciclastic/tuff in the Otibanda Formation of Papua New Guinea. It is the type species of Watutia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1989Watutia novaeguineae Flannery et al. pp. 146-149 fig. 1

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
subclassMetatheria()
—Marsupialiformes
—Marsupialia()
—AustralidelphiaSzalay 1982
orderDiprotodontiaOwen 1866
familyMacropodidae()
subfamilyMacropodinae
genusWatutia
speciesnovaeguineae

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Watutia novaeguineae Flannery et al. 1989
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available