Yarala

Yarala Temporal range: Late Oligocene–Early Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Marsupialia
Order:	Peramelemorphia
Family:	† Yaralidae Muirhead, 2000
Genus:	† Yarala Muirhead & Filan, 1995
Type species
†Yarala burchfieldi Muirhead & Filan, 1995
Other species
†Y. kidaSchwartz, 2006

Yarala is a genus of fossil mammals that resemble contemporary bandicoots. The superfamily Yaraloidea and family Yaralidae were created following the discovery of the type species Yarala burchfieldi in 1995, on the basis that it lacks synapomorphies that unite all other peramelemorphian taxa. ^{[1] [2]}

A second species was described in 2006, which is suggested to be ancestral to Y. burchfieldi. ^[3]

References

1. Muirhead, J. & Filan, S.L. (1995). "Yarala burchfieldi, a plesiomorphic bandicoot (marsupialia, peramelemorphia) from Oligo-Miocene deposits of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland". Journal of Paleontology. 69 (1): 127–134. doi:10.1017/S0022336000026986. S2CID   87592897.
2. Muirhead, J. (2000). "Yaraloidea (marsupialia, peramelemorphia), a new superfamily of marsupial and a description and analysis of the cranium of the Miocene Yarala burchfieldi". Journal of Paleontology. 74 (3): 512–523. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2000)074<0512:YMPANS>2.0.CO;2. S2CID   86208373.
3. Schwartz, L.R. (2006). "A new species of bandicot from the Oligocene of Northern Australia and implications for correlating Australian Tertiary mammal faunas". Palaeontology. 49 (5): 991–998. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00584.x . S2CID   84073016.