Wakaleo Temporal range:
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Life reconstruction of the type species, Wakaleo oldfieldi | |
Scientific 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
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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.