Crash bandicoot

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Peramelemorphia
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: Peramelemorphia

Familia: Peramelidae
Genus: †Crash
Species: †Crash bandicoot

Crash bandicoot Travouillon, Hand, Archer & Black, 2014: 377

Holotype: QM F56245, right maxilla containing M1–3 and the alveoli for M4.
Type locality and horizon: “Alan’s Ledge 1990 Site (AL90), Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland, Australia. AL90 Site is interpreted to be part of Riversleigh’s Faunal Zone C and as such middle Miocene in age”.

Travouillon, K.J. et al. 2014: Sexually dimorphic bandicoots (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia) from the Oligo-Miocene of Australia, first cranial ontogeny for fossil bandicoots and new species descriptions. Journal of mammalian evolution, DOI: 10.1007/s10914-014-9271-8 Reference page.