''Hondalagus'' is an extinct

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

marsupial Marsupials are any members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia. All extant marsupials are endemic to Australasia, Wallacea and the Americas. A distinctive characteristic common to most of these species is that the young are carried in a ...

mammals that lived during the Middle Miocene epoch (

Laventan The Laventan ( es, Laventense) age is a period of geologic time (13.8 to 11.8 Ma) within the Middle Miocene epoch of the Neogene, used more specifically within the SALMA classification in South America. It follows the Colloncuran and precedes th ...

) in South America. Their fossils were found in the Honda Group at Quebrada Honda, in southern Bolivia.''Hondalagus''
at Fossilworks.org ''Hondalagus'' represents the smallest and most specialized member of the extinct family Argyrolagidae.Villarroel C.A. y Marshall, L.G. (1988) A New Argyrolagoid (Mammalia: Marsupialia) from the Middle Miocene of Bolivia. ''Journal of Paleontology'', Vol. 62, No. 3:463–467

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q3805948 Miocene marsupials Miocene mammals of South America Laventan Neogene Bolivia Fossils of Bolivia Fossil taxa described in 1988