Wynyardiidae
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wynyardiidae-281-16378601
title:
Wynyardiidae
text:
Wynyardiidae is an extinct family of possum-like marsupials from the early Miocene of Wynyard in Tasmania, long been considered to display skeletal features that are intermediate between the primitive polyprotodont and the advanced diprotodont marsupials. Wynyardia's brain is clearly phalangeroid in external morphology, resembling closely that of the extant phalangerid Trichosurus vulpecula.
This indicates that by 21 million years ago, an unambiguously phalangerid brain had evolved within the Di
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description:
Extinct family of marsupials
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynyardiidae
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date modified:
2022-07-04T23:37:40Z
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