Wakaleo pitikantensis

Taxonavigation edit

Taxonavigation: Vombatiformes
Template loop detected: Template:Taxonav Clade: Marsupialiformes Cohors: Marsupialia Cladus: Australidelphia Cladus: Eomarsupialia Ordo: Diprotodontia Subordo: Vombatiformes

Familia: †Thylacoleonidae
Genus: †Wakaleo
Species: †Wakaleo pitikantensis

Name edit

Wakaleo pitikantensis (Rauscher, 1987): 424 ["Priscileo pitikantensis"]

Holotype: SAM P37719

Type locality: "UCMP locality V-5857, south-western end of Lake Pitikanta ... Etadunna Formation ... Tirari Desert, South Australia". [Gillespie et al., 2017]

Synonymy edit

Priscileo pitikantensis Rauscher, 1987 [protonym]
Wakaleo pitikantensis Gillespie, Archer & Hand, 2017

References edit

Primary references edit

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.