''Warendja'' is an

extinct Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...

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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 po ...

, present from the

Late Miocene The Late Miocene (also known as Upper Miocene) is a sub-epoch of the Miocene epoch (geology), Epoch made up of two faunal stage, stages. The Tortonian and Messinian stages comprise the Late Miocene sub-epoch, which lasted from 11.63 Ma (million ye ...

to the

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, which went extinct in the Quaternary extinction event. Weighing 10 kg, ''Warendja'' is the earliest known vombatiforme to exhibit hypsodonty.

References

*Brewer, P., June, 2007. New record of Warendja wakefieldi (Vombatidae; Marsupialia) from Wombeyan Caves, New South Wales. Alcheringa 31, 153–171. . Prehistoric vombatiforms Miocene genus first appearances Pleistocene genus extinctions Miocene mammals of Australia Pliocene mammals of Australia Pleistocene mammals of Australia Pleistocene marsupials Miocene marsupials Prehistoric marsupial genera Fossil taxa described in 1982 {{paleo-marsupial-stub