Glaucodon
Appearance
Glaucodon Temporal range: Late Pliocene
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Dasyuromorphia |
Family: | Dasyuridae |
Genus: | †Glaucodon Stirton, 1957 |
Species: | †G. ballaratensis
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Binomial name | |
†Glaucodon ballaratensis Stirton, 1957
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Glaucodon is an extinct genus of marsupial from Australia.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Gerdtz, W. and Archbold, N. (2003) Glaucodon ballaratensis (Marsupialia, Dasyuridae), a Late Pliocene 'Devil' from Batesford, Victoria, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, Vol 115, No 2, pp. 35–44, Royal Society of Victoria, Australia.
Further reading
[edit]- Wildlife of Gondwana: Dinosaurs and Other Vertebrates from the Ancient Supercontinent (Life of the Past) by Pat Vickers Rich, Thomas Hewitt Rich, Francesco Coffa, and Steven Morton
- Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution by John A. Long, Michael Archer, Timothy Flannery, and Suzanne Hand