Wakaleo

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Vombatiformes
Clade: Marsupialiformes Cohors: Marsupialia Cladus: Australidelphia Cladus: Eomarsupialia Ordo: Diprotodontia Subordo: Vombatiformes

Familia: †Thylacoleonidae
Genus: †Wakaleo
Species: †W. alcootaensis – †W. oldfieldi – †W. pitikantensis – †W. schouteni – †W. vanderleueri

Name

Wakaleo Clemens & Plane, 1974: 653

Type species: Wakaleo oldfieldi [Clemens & Plane, 1974: 654]

Synonymy

• Priscileo Rauscher, 1987 [syn. Gillespie et al., 2017]

Etymology: "Waka, Dieri aboriginal dialect, small or little; Leo, Latin, lion" [Clemens & Plane, 1974: 654]

References

Primary references

• Clemens, W.A. & Plane, M. 1974. Mid-Tertiary Thylacoleonidae (Marsupialia, Mammalia). Journal of Paleontology 48(4): 652–660. JSTOR Reference page. 
• Rauscher, B. 1987. Priscileo pitikantensis, a new genus and species of thylacoleonid marsupial (Marsupialia: Thylacoleonidae) from the Miocene Etaduma formation, South Australia. Pp. 423–432. In Archer, M. (ed.) Possums and Opossums: Studies in Evolution II. ISBN 978-0-949-32405-4 Reference page. 
• Gillespie, A.K., Archer, M. & Hand, S.J. 2017. A new Oligo–Miocene marsupial lion from Australia and revision of the family Thylacoleonidae. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17(1): 59–89. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2017.1391885 ResearchGate Reference page.