Jump to content

Plaisiodon

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Plaisiodon
Temporal range: Late Miocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Diprotodontidae
Subfamily: Zygomaturinae
Genus: Plaisiodon
Woodburne, 1967
Species:
P. centralis
Binomial name
Plaisiodon centralis
Woodburne, 1967

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

[edit]
  1. ^ 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)