Taxonavigation
Taxonavigation: Dasyuromorphia |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Dasyuridae
Subfamilia: †Barinyinae
Genus: †Barinya
Species: †Barinya wangala
Name
Barinya wangala (Wroe, 1999)
Type locality: Riversleigh (Neville's Garden Site), Queensland, Australia.
Type specimen: QM F31408, a skull (nearly complete skull, with only the right ectotympanic, most of the right and left alisphenoid tympanic wings and the anteriormost tips of the nasals missing). Its type locality is Neville's Garden Site, which is in a Miocene terrestrial horizon in Australia.
References
- Wroe, S. 1999. The geologically oldest dasyurid, from the Miocene of Riversleigh, north-west Queensland. Palaeontology 42(3): 501–527. PDF. Reference page.
- Long, J., Archer, M., Flannery, T. & Hand, S. 2002. Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution. John Hopkins University Press. pp 51. ISBN 0-8018-7223-5.