''Kuterintja'' 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 ...

of the family

Ilariidae The Ilariidae is a family of fossil mammals. Most ilariids are found in the middle Tertiary faunal assemblages of South Australia. '' Ilaria illumidens'' is the best-preserved representative of this extinct clade of vombatiforms. The species is ...

. Only one species has been described, ''Kuterintja ngama'', from

Late Oligocene The Chattian is, in the geologic timescale, the younger of two ages or upper of two stages of the Oligocene Epoch/ Series. It spans the time between . The Chattian is preceded by the Rupelian and is followed by the Aquitanian (the lowest stage ...

of Australia.

References

* Archer, M.; Flannery, T.; Hand, S.; Long, J
Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution
UNSW Press, 2002. 244 pages. Prehistoric vombatiforms Riversleigh fauna Oligocene marsupials Prehistoric marsupial genera Fossil taxa described in 1987 {{paleo-marsupial-stub