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Hulitherium

 
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Hulitherium
Fossil range: 1.8–0.01 Ma
Pleistocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Diprotodontia
Suborder: Vombatiformes
Family: Zygomaturidae
Genus: Hulitherium (Flannery & Plane, 1986)
Species: Hulitherium tomasetti

Hulitherium was an extinct genus of Zygomaturidae, a marsupial from New Guinea during the Pleistocene. The marsupial had a height of 1 m (3 ft) and was close to 2 m (6 ft) long. Hulitherium may have fed on bamboo, like a panda.

Sources

  • David Norman. (2001): The Big Book Of Dinosaurs. Pg.133, Welcome Books.
  • Wildlife of Gondwana: Dinosaurs and Other Vertebrates from the Ancient Supercontinent (Life of the Past) by Pat Vickers Rich, Thomas Hewitt Rich, Francesco Coffa, and Steven Morton
  • Australia's Lost World: Prehistoric Animals of Riversleigh by Michael Archer, Suzanne J. Hand, and Henk Godthelp
  • Classification of Mammals by Malcolm C. McKenna and Susan K. Bell
  • Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution by John A. Long, Michael Archer, Timothy Flannery, and Suzanne Hand
  • Extinctions in Near Time: Causes, Contexts, and Consequences (Advances in Vertebrate Paleobiology) by Ross D.E. MacPhee and Hans-Dieter Sues

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