''Ganbulanyi djadjinguli'' is a fossil species of Miocene dasyurid, described in 1998 and assigned to a new genus. The dentition has characteristics exhibited by mammals known as bone-crackers, a type of

durophagy Durophagy is the eating behavior of animals that consume hard-shelled or exoskeleton bearing organisms, such as corals, shelled mollusks, or crabs. It is mostly used to describe fish, but is also used when describing reptiles, including fossil tu ...

in which the animal is able to obtain to extract food contained in bony material. The amount of fossil material is inadequate to place this taxon within the

Dasyuromorph Dasyuromorphia (, meaning "hairy tail" in Greek) is an order comprising most of the Australian carnivorous marsupials, including quolls, dunnarts, the numbat, the Tasmanian devil, and the thylacine. In Australia, the exceptions include the o ...

order, but affinities are recognised with the ''

Sarcophilus ''Sarcophilus'' is a genus of carnivorous marsupial best known for its only living member, the Tasmanian devil. Sarcophilus is Latin - meaning 'flesh-loving'. There are four species of ''Sarcophilus''. '' S. laniarius'' and '' S. moornaensis'' ...

'', the Tasmanian devil, and the extinct species '' Barinya wangala''.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q29577282, from2=Q2401681 Prehistoric dasyuromorphs Riversleigh fauna Mammals described in 1998 Carnivorous marsupials Prehistoric marsupial genera