Barinya wangala

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Dasyuromorphia

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Cladus: Theriimorpha Cladus: Theriiformes Cladus: Trechnotheria Cladus: Zatheria Subclassis: Theria Cladus: Metatheria Cladus: Marsupialiformes Infraclassis: Marsupialia Cladus: Australidelphia Cladus: Eomarsupialia Ordo: Dasyuromorphia

Familia: Dasyuridae
Subfamilia: †Barinyinae
Genus: †Barinya
Species: †Barinya wangala

Name

Barinya wangala (Wroe, 1999)

Type locality: Riversleigh (Neville's Garden Site), Queensland, Australia.

Type specimen: QM F31408, a skull (nearly complete skull, with only the right ectotympanic, most of the right and left alisphenoid tympanic wings and the anteriormost tips of the nasals missing). Its type locality is Neville's Garden Site, which is in a Miocene terrestrial horizon in Australia.

References

• Wroe, S. 1999. The geologically oldest dasyurid, from the Miocene of Riversleigh, north-west Queensland. Palaeontology 42(3): 501–527. PDF. Reference page. 
• Long, J., Archer, M., Flannery, T. & Hand, S. 2002. Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution. John Hopkins University Press. pp 51. ISBN 0-8018-7223-5.