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Weirdodectes
Weirdodectes is an extinct genus of unusual marsupial from northeast Australia that lived during the Middle Miocene. Its fossils are known from a single site located at the Riversleigh World Heritage Area. Its diet is unknown, but is thought to have differed from that of other malleodectids. Only a single species is currently assigned to Weirdodectes, the type species W. napoleoni.
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Weirdodectes is an extinct genus of unusual marsupial from northeast Australia that lived during the Middle Miocene. Its fossils are known from a single site located at the Riversleigh World Heritage Area. Its diet is unknown, but is thought to have differed from that of other malleodectids. Only a single species is currently assigned to Weirdodectes, the type species W. napoleoni.
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