Microleo
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Microleo Temporal range: Early Miocene |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | †Thylacoleonidae |
| Genus: | †Microleo |
| Species: | M. attenboroughi |
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Microleo attenboroughi Gillespie, et al 2016 |
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Microleo attenboroughi is a very small marsupial lion from the Early Miocene of Australia, about 18 million years ago.M. attenboroughi is currently known from a broken palate containing an incomplete row of cheekteeth diagnostic of Thylacoleonidae found in the Early Miocene-aged area of the Riversleigh World Heritage Site, in Queensland.
The anatomy of Microleo suggests it is the basalmost of all thylacoleonids, and that the marsupial lions as a whole are basal vombatomorphs that form the sister taxon of all other Vombatomorphia
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