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Alamitophis tingamarra
https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/alamitophis-tingamarra/Alamitophis tingamarra was a small Eocene madtsoiid, an extinct family of primitive snakes known mainly from Gondwana. Madtsoiids have the longest fossil record of any group of snakes, with a record that stretches from about 90 million to 100,000 years ago.
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Steropodon galmani
https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/steropodon-galmani/Steropodon galmani, a platypus-like monotreme from the Early Cretaceous of Australia, was the first Mesozoic mammal discovered from Australia. It is known from an opalised lower jaw with molar teeth found at the mining town of Lightning Ridge in north central New South Wales.
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Paljara tirarense
https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/paljara-tirarense/Paljara tirarense was a small ringtail possum (family Pseudocheiridae) from the early Miocene of South Australia and northwestern Queensland. Ringtail possums were once much more diverse than they are today, distributed across many now-dry parts of Australia that were forested during the Cainozoic.
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Nimbacinus dicksoni
https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/nimbacinus-dicksoni/Nimbacinus dicksoni was a small, fox-sized thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial distantly related to the 'Tasmanian Tiger' (Thylacinus cynocephalus). Thylacines were the main mammalian predators of the Miocene.
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Dromornis planei (Bullockornis planei)
https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/dromornis-planei-bullockornis-planei/Dromornis planei (Bullockornis planei)
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Bramble Cay Melomys, Melomys rubicola
https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/melomys-rubicola/The Bramble Cay Melomys, or Bramble Cay mosaic-tailed rat was officially declared extinct in 2019. It is considered the first mammal to become extinct due to climate change.