Yarala
Extinct genus of marsupials
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Yarala is a genus of fossil mammals that resemble contemporary bandicoots. The superfamily Yaraloidea and family Yaralidae were created following the discovery of the type species Yarala burchfieldi in 1995, on the basis that it lacks synapomorphies that unite all other peramelemorphian taxa.[1][2]
| Yarala Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Peramelemorphia |
| Family: | †Yaralidae Muirhead, 2000 |
| Genus: | †Yarala Muirhead & Filan, 1995 |
| Type species | |
| †Yarala burchfieldi Muirhead & Filan, 1995 | |
| Other species | |
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A second species was described in 2006, which is suggested to be ancestral to Y. burchfieldi.[3]
