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Australia’s extinct animals
https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/Learning about Australia’s extinct fauna helps us to create links through time that relate the animals of the past with those of today.
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Thylacoleo carnifex
https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/animals/mammals/thylacoleo-carnifex/Thylacoleo carnifex, the largest carnivorous Australian mammal known, may have hunted other Pleistocene megafauna like the giant Diprotodon. Thylacoleo was one of the first fossil mammals described from Australia, discovered not long after European settlement.
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Muttaburrasaurus langdoni
https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/dinosaurs/fact-sheets/muttaburrasaurus-langdoni/Muttaburrasaurus was a large, plant-eating ornithopod from the Early Cretaceous of eastern Australia.
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Kambara implexidens
https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/dinosaurs/fact-sheets/kambara-implexidens/Kambara implexidens, from the early Eocene of Queensland, was a mekosuchine, an ancient group of primitive Gondwanan crocodiles.
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Chunia illuminata
https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/chunia-illuminata/Chunia was a primitive ektopodontid, a distinctive group of Cainozoic Australian possums that may have been specialized seed-eaters. Ektopodontids, first thought to be monotremes, had short faces, large, forward-facing eyes and the most unusual and complex teeth of any marsupial.
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Yarala burchfieldi
https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/yarala-burchfieldi/Yarala burchfieldi is one of the oldest and smallest bandicoots known, as well as the most archaic. It would have foraged in the forest leaf litter for insects and may have been at least partly carnivorous, like the dasyurids.