Biology:Plaisiodon
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Short description: Extinct genus of marsupials
| Plaisiodon | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | †Diprotodontidae |
| Subfamily: | †Zygomaturinae |
| Genus: | †Plaisiodon Woodburne, 1967 |
| Species: | †P. centralis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Plaisiodon centralis Woodburne, 1967
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Plaisiodon is an extinct genus of Zygomaturinae from the late Miocene Alcoota Fossil Beds in the Northern Territory, Australia . Because of its robust skull it has been suggested that it consumed relatively hard or coarse vegetation.[1]
References
- ↑ Long, J., Archer, M., Flannery, T., & Hand, S. (2002) Prehistoric mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One hundred million years of evolution. University of New South Wales Press (page 96–97)
Wikidata ☰ Q3391055 entry
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