Silvabestius

Silvabestius

Taxobox
name = "Silvabestius"
fossil_range = Early Miocene


image width = 200px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
infraclassis = Marsupialia
ordo = Diprotodontia
subordo = Vombatiformes
familia = Zygomaturidae
genus = "Silvabestius"

"Silvabestius" is an extinct genus of marsupial dating to the Early Miocene. They were grazing animals about the size of a modern sheep.

This animal is known from two skulls found close together which have come to be known as the "Madonna and Child" fossils. [ [http://www.megacom.net/~arkones/yowie/lkc/ylkc-08.html SILVABESTIUS] . Accessed May 14, 2008.]

ee also

*"Hulitherium"
*"Neohelos"
*"Zygomaturus"
*"Kolopsis"

References

*"Wildlife of Gondwana: Dinosaurs and Other Vertebrates from the Ancient Supercontinent" (Life of the Past) by Pat Vickers Rich, Thomas Hewitt Rich, Francesco Coffa, and Steven Morton
* "Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution" by John A. Long, Michael Archer, Timothy Flannery, and Suzanne Hand


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