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| Perameles allinghamensis Temporal range: Early Pliocene | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Peramelemorphia |
| Family: | Peramelidae |
| Genus: | Perameles |
| Species: | P. allinghamensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Perameles allinghamensis Archer and Wade, 1976 | |
Perameles allinghamensis, the Bluff Downs bandicoot, is a small extinct bandicoot that lived in Australia 4 million years ago in the Pliocene period. It was discovered at the Bluff Downs fossil site in northern Queensland. Its diet probably consisted of insects and soft roots dug for with its front claws.
References
- Archer, M. & Wade, M. 1976. Results of the Ray E. Lemley expeditions, part 1: The Allingham Formation and a new Pliocene vertebrate fauna from northern Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 17, 54–58.
- http://www.abc.net.au/science/ausbeasts/factfiles/bluffdownsbandicoot.htm ABC: Ausbeasts
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| Perameles allinghamensis | |
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