Plaisiodon
Extinct genus of marsupials
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Plaisiodon is an extinct genus of Zygomaturinae from the late Miocene Alcoota Fossil Beds in the Northern Territory, Australia. Because of its robust skull it has been suggested that it consumed relatively hard or coarse vegetation.[1]
| Plaisiodon Temporal range: Late Miocene | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | †Diprotodontidae |
| Subfamily: | †Zygomaturinae |
| Genus: | †Plaisiodon Woodburne, 1967 |
| Species: | †P. centralis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Plaisiodon centralis Woodburne, 1967 | |
