Perameles bowensis

Perameles bowensis is an extinct Pliocene-aged species of bandicoot. Fossils have been found in the Wellington Caves of New South Wales.^[1] The bandicoot was about 20 centimeters long.^[2] It is believed to have gone extinct in the Late Pliocene.

Perameles bowensis Temporal range: Pliocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Marsupialia
Order:	Peramelemorphia
Family:	Peramelidae
Genus:	Perameles
Species:	P. bowensis
Binomial name
Perameles bowensis Muirhead, Dawson, and Archer 1997

It is probably most closely related to P. sobbei, a Pleistocene-aged bandicoot from Queensland.^[2][3][4]