Wakaleo alcootaensis Temporal range: Late Miocene |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Diprotodontia |
Family: | †Thylacoleonidae |
Genus: | †Wakaleo |
Species: | †W. alcootaensis |
Binomial name | |
Wakaleo alcootaensis |
Wakaleo alcootaensis was a "marsupial lion" that lived during the late Miocene, about 10 million years ago and was about the size of a dog.
It has been found in Alcoota in the Northern Territory of Australia, and is known from a single fossil maxilla fragment found in 1974 by Dr. Michael Archer.