{"id":791,"date":"2023-05-29T20:54:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T11:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/?page_id=791"},"modified":"2023-05-30T11:24:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T01:54:57","slug":"wakaleo-pitikantensis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/fossils\/vertebrate-fossils\/marsupials\/thylacoleonidae-family-marsupial-lions\/wakaleo-pitikantensis\/","title":{"rendered":"Wakaleo pitikantensis<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wakaleo pitikantensis<\/em><\/h1>\n

The smallest member of the genus Wakaleo, W. pitikantensis\u00a0 <\/em>was a cat-sized marsupial predator that likely hunted in the trees or ambushed its prey by dropping on them from a branch. It was first described in 1987 as Priscileo pitikantensis<\/em> but later recognised as belonging to the genus Wakaleo<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Geological age:<\/strong> late Oligocene
\nState\/territory:<\/strong> South Australia
\nLocality\/site:<\/strong> Lake Kanunka, Etadunna Formation[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=”794″ img_size=”medium” add_caption=”yes”][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=”795″ img_size=”medium” add_caption=”yes”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Skeletal element:<\/strong> maxilla
\nSpecimen number:<\/strong> SAMA P37719
\nSignificance of specimen:<\/strong> Holotype[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Skeletal element:<\/strong> humerus (left)
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Rauscher, B. (1987). Priscileo pitikantensis<\/em>, a new genus and species of thylacoleonid marsupial (Marsupialia: Thylacoleonidae) from the Miocene Etadunna Formation, South Australia.\u00a0Possums and Opossums: Studies in Evolution. Surrey Beatty & Sons and the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia<\/i>, 423-432.<\/p>\n

Gillespie, A. K., Archer, M., Hand, S. J., & Black, K. H. (2014). New material referable to\u00a0Wakaleo<\/em>\u00a0(Marsupialia: Thylacoleonidae) from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland: revising species boundaries and distributions in Oligo\/Miocene marsupial lions.\u00a0Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology<\/i>,\u00a038<\/i>(4), 513-527.<\/p>\n

Gillespie, A. K., Archer, M., & Hand, S. J. (2019). A new Oligo\u2013Miocene marsupial lion from Australia and revision of the family Thylacoleonidae.\u00a0Journal of Systematic Palaeontology<\/i>,\u00a017<\/i>(1), 59-89.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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