- Yarala
Taxobox
name = "Yarala"
fossil_range =Oligocene -Miocene
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis =Mammal ia
infraclassis =Marsupial ia
ordo =Peramelemorphia
superfamilia = †Yaraloidea
superfamilia_authority = Muirhead, 2000
familia = †Yaralidae
familia_authority = Muirhead, 2000
genus = †"Yarala"
genus_authority = Muirhead, 1995
subdivision_ranks =Species
subdivision =
*†"Yarala burchfieldi "
*†"Yarala kida ""Yarala" is a genus of fossil mammals that resemble contemporary
bandicoot s. The superfamily Yaraloidea and family Yaralidae were created following the discovery of thetype species "Yarala burchfieldi " in 1995, on the basis that it lackssynapomorphies that unite all otherperamelemorphia n taxa. [cite journal | author = Muirhead, J. and Filan, S.L. | year = 1995 | title = "Yarala burchfieldi", a pleisomorphic bandicoot (marsupialia, peramelemorphia) from Oligo-Miocene deposits of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland | journal = Journal of Paleontology | volume = 69 | issue = 1 | pages = 127–134] [cite journal | author = Muirhead, J. | year = 2000 | title = Yaraloidea (marsupialia, peramelemorphia), a new superfamily of marsupial and a description and analysis of the cranium of the Miocene "Yarala burchfieldi" | journal = Journal of Paleontology | volume = 74 | issue = 3 | pages = 512–523 | doi = 10.1666/0022-3360(2000)074<0512:YMPANS>2.0.CO;2 | doilabel = 10.1666/0022-3360(2000)0740512:YMPANS2.0.CO;2]A second species was described in 2006, which is suggested to be ancestralto "Y. burchfieldi". [cite journal | author = Schwartz, L.R. | year = 2006 | title = A new species of bandicot from the Oligocene of Northern Australia and implications for correlating Australian Tertiary mammal faunas | journal = Palaeontology | doi = 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00584.x | volume = 49 | issue = 5 | pages = 991–998]
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