Wakaleo
Extinct genus of marsupials / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wakaleo (Diyari waka, "little", "small"; and Latin leo, "lion")[1] is an extinct genus of medium-sized thylacoleonids that lived in Australia in the Late Oligocene and Miocene Epochs. Although much smaller than its close relative, the marsupial lion (Thylacoleo carnifex), Wakaleo would have been a successful hunter. It had teeth specially designed for cutting and stabbing.[clarification needed] The genus is from an extinct family of Vombatiformes, so it is distantly related to the herbivorous wombats.[2]
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Wakaleo | |
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Life reconstruction of the marsupial lion Wakaleo oldfieldi | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Diprotodontia |
Family: | †Thylacoleonidae |
Genus: | †Wakaleo Clemens & Plane, 1974[1] |
Species | |
†W. alcootaensis |
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