Djarthia

Djarthia
Temporal range: Early Eocene
Isolated petrosals of Djarthia murgonensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Superorder: Australidelphia
Genus: †Djarthia
Godthelp et al., 1999
Species:
†D. murgonensis
Binomial name
†Djarthia murgonensis
Godthelp, et al, 1999
Comparison of isolated tarsals of Djarthia murgonensis with an extant australidelphian marsupial and an extant non-australidelphian (‘ameridelphian’) marsupial

Djarthia is an extinct monotypic genus of marsupial. It is the oldest marsupial found in Australia, discovered at the Murgon fossil site in south-eastern Queensland.

D. murgonensis was described from material identified as Early Eocene Tingamarran fauna, first published in 1999.[1] It was placed with the clade Australidelphia, which includes the marsupials that dispersed throughout Eastern Gondwanan supercontinent during the Eocene and remain extant in Australia and South America. Skeletal material described include a molar, incomplete cochlear and tarsal bone either complete or in fragmented state of preservation.[2]

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