Kingdom Animalia Class Mammalia Order Diprotodontia Scientific name Wakaleo alcootaensis | Phylum Chordata Infraclass Marsupialia Family †Thylacoleonidae Rank Species | |
Similar Priscileo, Thylacoleonidae, Wakaleo, Kolopsis, Thylacinus potens | ||
Wakaleo alcootaensis was a "marsupial lion" that lived during the late Miocene, about 10 million years ago and was about the size of a dog.
It has been found in Alcoota in the Northern Territory of Australia, and is known from a single fossil maxilla fragment found in 1974 by Dr. Michael Archer.
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