Yarala

Yarala is a genus of fossil mammals that resemble contemporary bandicoots. The superfamily Yaraloidea and family Yaralidae were created following the discovery of the type species Yarala burchfieldi in 1995, on the basis that it lacks synapomorphies that unite all other peramelemorphian taxa.^[1][2]

Yarala Temporal range: Late Oligocene–Early Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Marsupialia
Order:	Peramelemorphia
Family:	†Yaralidae Muirhead, 2000
Genus:	†Yarala Muirhead & Filan, 1995
Type species
†Yarala burchfieldi Muirhead & Filan, 1995
Other species
†Y. kida Schwartz, 2006

A second species was described in 2006, which is suggested to be ancestral to Y. burchfieldi.^[3]