| Wakaleo alcootaensis Temporal range: Late Miocene |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | †Thylacoleonidae |
| Genus: | †Wakaleo |
| Species: | †W. alcootaensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Wakaleo alcootaensis |
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Wakaleo alcootaensis lived during the late Miocene, approximately 10 million years ago and was about the size of a dog.[1]
It has been found in Alcoota in the northern territory and is known from a single fossil maxilla fragment[1] found in 1974 by Dr. Michael Archer.