Rhizophascolonus
Extinct genus of marsupials
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Rhizophascolonus is an extinct genus of wombat known from the Early Miocene of South Australia.[1][2] The genus was first described to accommodate Rhizophascolonus crowcrofti, in 1967. A discovery at Riversleigh was published as another new species in 2018, Rhizophascolonus ngangaba, and further specimens from this area were assigned to R. crowcrofti in the same study.[3]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | Vombatidae |
| Genus: | †Rhizophascolonus Stirton et al., 1967 |
| Type species | |
| Rhizophascolonus crowcrofti Stirton et al., 1967 | |
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