Wakaleo

Wakaleo
Temporal range: Late Oligocene–Late Miocene
Life reconstruction of the type species, Wakaleo oldfieldi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Thylacoleonidae
Genus: Wakaleo
Clemens & Plane, 1974[1]
Type species
Wakaleo oldfieldi
Clemens & Plane, 1974
Species
  • W. alcootaensis Archer & Rich, 1984
  • W. oldfieldi Clemens & Plane, 1974 (type)
  • W. pitikantensis Rauscher, 1987
  • W. schouteni Gillespie, Archer & Hand, 2017
  • W. vanderleuri Clemens & Plane, 1974
Synonyms
  • Priscileo pitikantensis Rauscher, 1987

Wakaleo (Diyari waka, "little", "small"; and Latin leo, "lion")[1] is an extinct genus of medium-sized thylacoleonids that lived in Australia in the Late Oligocene and Miocene Epochs.

  1. ^ a b Clemens, W.A.; Plane, M. (1974). "Mid-Tertiary Thylacoleonidae (Marsupialia, Mammalia)". Journal of Paleontology. 48 (4): 653–660. ISSN 0022-3360.