''Bulungu'' is an extinct

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bandicoot Bandicoots are a group of more than 20 species of small to medium-sized, terrestrial, largely nocturnal marsupial omnivores in the order Peramelemorphia. They are endemic to the Australia–New Guinea region, including the Bismarck Archipelago t ...

-like mammal from Oligo-

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deposits of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, and the Etadunna Formation,

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. It was first named by Gurovich ''et al.'' (2013) and the type species is ''Bulungu palara''. Two additional species, ''Bulungu campbelli'' adnd ''Bulungu minkinaensis'', were also described in 2013. ''Bulungu muirheadae'' is the oldest fossil bandicoot recovered to date. An additional three species ''Bulungu minkinaensis'', ''Bulungu pinpaensis'', and ''Bulungu westermani'' were named by Travouillon, Beck & Case (

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) allowing for placement of the genus in the superfamily

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