| Plaisiodon Temporal range: LateMiocene | |
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Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | †Diprotodontidae |
| Subfamily: | †Zygomaturinae |
| Genus: | †Plaisiodon Woodburne, 1967 |
| Species: | †P. centralis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Plaisiodon centralis Woodburne, 1967 | |
Plaisiodon is an extinct genus ofZygomaturinae from the lateMiocene Alcoota Fossil Beds in theNorthern Territory,Australia. Because of its robust skull it has been suggested that it consumed relatively hard or coarse vegetation.[1]
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