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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | Potoroidae |
| Subfamily: | Potoroinae |
| Genus: | †Caloprymnus Thomas, 1888 |
| Species: | †C. campestris
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| Binomial name | |
| †Caloprymnus campestris (Gould, 1843)
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| Historic desert rat kangaroo range in orange | |
The desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris), also called the buff-nosed rat-kangaroo, plains rat-kangaroo or oolacunta,[2] is an extinct small hopping marsupial endemic to desert regions of Central Australia. It was first recorded in the early 1840s and described by John Gould in London in 1843, on the basis of three specimens sent to him by George Grey, the governor of South Australia at the time.[3][4]
- ^ Woinarski, J.; Burbidge, A.A. (2016). "Caloprymnus campestris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T3626A21961545. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T3626A21961545.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ Tony Robinson & Tiana Forrest (2012) A possible sighting of the Desert Rat-kangaroo or Oolacunta (Caloprymnus campestris) on the Peake Station, South Australia The South Australian Naturalist, 86(2) Jul-Dec 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
- ^ Johnson, C. (2006). "Chapter 1: A brief history of Australia's mammals" (PDF). Australia's mammal extinctions: a 50,000 year history. Cambridge University Press. p. 278. ISBN 978-0-521-84918-0. OCLC 63187432.
- ^ Finlayson, H. H. (1932-06-11). "Rediscovery of Caloprymnus campestris (Marsupialia)". Nature. 129 (3267): 871. Bibcode:1932Natur.129..871F. doi:10.1038/129871b0. S2CID 4075003.