Ekaltadeta

Ekaltadeta Temporal range: Oligocene–Pleistocene PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Marsupialia
Order:	Diprotodontia
Family:	Hypsiprymnodontidae
Subfamily:	Propleopinae
Genus:	Ekaltadeta Archer & Flannery, 1985
Species
†E. ima †E. jamiemulvaneyi

Ekaltadeta is an extinct genus of giant marsupials related to modern rat-kangaroos.

They are hypothesized to have been either predatory, or omnivorous with a fondness for meat, based on their chewing teeth. This conclusion is based mainly on the size and shape of a large buzz-saw-shaped cheek-tooth, the adult third premolar, which is common to all Ekaltadeta. A few species actually did also have long predatory "fangs".

Fossils of the animals include two near complete skulls, and numerous upper and lower jaws.