Wyulda

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Wyulda
Temporal range: Early Miocene - Recent
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Wyulda squamicaudata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Phalangeridae
Genus: Wyulda
Alexander, 1918
Type species
Wyulda squamicaudata
Alexander, 1918
Species

Wyulda is a genus of phalanger. The scaly-tailed possum is the only extant species, but a single extinct species ( Wyulda asherjoeli ) from the Miocene is known as well. [2]

References

  1. "Wyulda asherjoeli". Fossilworks.
  2. Crosby, K. (2001). "Wyulda asherjoeli, a new phalangerid (Diprotodontia: Marsupialia) from the early Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland". Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists. 25: 77–82.