Neohelos

Neohelos Temporal range: Late Oligocene to middle Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Marsupialia
Order:	Diprotodontia
Suborder:	Vombatiformes
Family:	Diprotodontidae
Genus:	Neohelos

Neohelos is an extinct sheep-sized marsupial from the late Oligocene to middle-Miocene aged deposits of Bullock Creek in the Northern Territory, Lake Ngapakaldi South Australia and riversleigh of Queensland. There are four species in this genera, N. tirarensis (Stirton 1967) from Bullock Creek and the undescribed N. spA, N. spB (Bullock creek and Riversleigh) and N. spC from Riversleigh. There might be a fifth species from Lake Ngapakaldi Local Fauna. These are all according to Murry et al. (2000 p. 111) may form succession species with the last being the ancestor to the genera Kolopsis.

See also

Paleontology portal

• Hulitherium
• Silvabestius
• Zygomaturus
• Kolopsis

References

• The Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earth by Jean-Paul Tibbles, Peter Andrews, John Barber, and Michael Benton
• Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution by John A. Long, Michael Archer, Timothy Flannery, and Suzanne Hand
• Number 6 Murray P et al., 2000 Morphology, systematics and evolution of the marsupial genus Neohelos Stirton (Diprotdontidae, Zygomaturinae)

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