| Ngapakaldia Temporal range:Late Oligocene | |
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Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | †Diprotodontidae |
| Genus: | †Ngapakaldia R. A. Stirton, 1967 |
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Ngapakaldia is anextinctgenus ofdiprotodontidmarsupials, related to the modernkoala andwombat. Around the size of a sheep, it was a ground-dwelling herbivore that lived around the vegetated shores of lakes in Central Australia during theLate Oligocene.
The genus was established in 1967 byR. A. Stirton when describing a fossil speciesNgapakaldia tedfordi. The name refers to the source of the type material,Lake Ngapakaldi, located inLake Ngapakaldi to Lake Palankarinna Fossil Area in theTirari Desert of central Australia.[2]
Two species are placed with the genus,N. bonythoni andN. tedfordi.[3]
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