Wakaleo

Wakaleo
Temporal range:
Life reconstruction of the type species, Wakaleo oldfieldi
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: †Thylacoleonidae
Genus: †Wakaleo
Clemens & Plane, 1974
Type species
†Wakaleo oldfieldi
Clemens & Plane, 1974
Species
  • †W. alcootaensis Archer & Rich, 1984
  • †W. oldfieldi Clemens & Plane, 1974 (type)
  • †W. pitikantensis Rauscher, 1987
  • †W. schouteni Gillespie, Archer & Hand, 2017
  • †W. vanderleuri Clemens & Plane, 1974
Synonyms
  • Priscileo pitikantensis Rauscher, 1987

Wakaleo (Diyari waka, "little", "small"; and Latin leo, "lion") is an extinct genus of medium-sized thylacoleonids that lived in Australia in the Late Oligocene and Miocene Epochs.

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