''Vombatus'' is a genus of
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 ...
that contains a single living species, the
common wombat (''Vombatus ursinus).''
The recently extinct Hackett's wombat ''(
Vombatus hacketti
''Vombatus hacketti'', Hackett's wombat, is an extinct species of wombat that lived in Southwest Australia during the Late Pleistocene. It survived until very recently, going between 10,000 and 20,000 BP.
Description
Fossils of this species were ...
)'' is also a member of this genus.
References
Mammal genera with one living species
Marsupial genera
Taxa named by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Vombatiforms
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