Ekaltadeta
Extinct genus of marsupials / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ekaltadeta is an extinct genus of marsupials related to the modern musky rat-kangaroos.[2][3][4] Ekaltadeta was present in what is today the Riversleigh formations in Northern Queensland from the Late Oligocene to the Miocene, and the genus includes three species.[5][6] The genus is hypothesized to have been either exclusively carnivorous, or omnivorous with a fondness for meat, based on the chewing teeth found in fossils.[6] This conclusion is based mainly on the size and shape of a large buzz-saw-shaped cheek-tooth, the adult third premolar, which is common to all Ekaltadeta.[7]
Ekaltadeta | |
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Restoration of Ekaltadeta ima | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Diprotodontia |
Family: | Hypsiprymnodontidae |
Genus: | †Ekaltadeta Mike Archer & Flannery, 1985[1] |
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Fossils of the animals include two near complete skulls, and numerous upper and lower jaws.