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Hulitherium
Extinct genus of marsupials / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Huilatherium.
Hulitherium tomasetti (meaning "Huli beast", after the Huli people)[1] is an extinct zygomaturine marsupial that lived in New Guinea during the Pleistocene. The species name honours Berard Tomasetti, a Catholic priest in Papua New Guinea, who brought the fossils to the attention of experts.[1][2]
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Diprotodontia |
Family: | †Diprotodontidae |
Subfamily: | †Zygomaturinae |
Genus: | †Hulitherium Flannery & Plane, 1986 |
Species: | †H. tomasetti |
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†Hulitherium tomasetti Flannery & Plane, 1986 | |
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