Muramura
Extinct genus of marsupials
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Muramura williamsi is an extinct Australian wynardiid marsupial, related to the modern koala and wombat. Around the size of a dog at 65 cm (26 in) in length, it was a herbivore.[1] Fossils range in age from the Late Oligocene to the Pliocene in age.
| Muramura Temporal range: Late Oligocene-Pliocene | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | †Wynyardiidae |
| Genus: | †Muramura Pledge, 1987 |
| Species | |
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M. williamsi | |
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