Hulitherium

Taxobox
name = "Hulitherium"
fossil_range = Pleistocene


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
infraclassis = Marsupialia
ordo = Diprotodontia
subordo = Vombatiformes
familia = Zygomaturidae
genus = "Hulitherium" (Flannery & Plane, 1986)
species= Hulitherium tomasetti

"Hulitherium" was an extinct genus of Zygomaturidae, a marsupial from New Guinea during the Pleistocene.The marsupial had a height of 1 m (3 ft) and was close to 2 m (6 ft) long. Hulitherium may have fed on bamboo, like a panda.

ources

*David Norman. (2001): "The Big Book Of Dinosaurs". Pg.133, Welcome Books.
*"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
*"Australia's Lost World: Prehistoric Animals of Riversleigh" by Michael Archer, Suzanne J. Hand, and Henk Godthelp
*"Classification of Mammals" by Malcolm C. McKenna and Susan K. Bell
*"Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution" by John A. Long, Michael Archer, Timothy Flannery, and Suzanne Hand
*"Extinctions in Near Time: Causes, Contexts, and Consequences (Advances in Vertebrate Paleobiology)" by Ross D.E. MacPhee and Hans-Dieter Sues

ee also

*Zygomaturus
*Silvabestius
*Neohelos
*Kolopsis