Name
Hulitherium (Huli beast).
Phonetic
Hu-le-fee-re-um.
Named By
Flannery & Plane - 1986.
Classification
Chordata, Mammalia, Marsupialia, Diprotodontia, Vombatiformes, Zygomaturidae
Diet
Herbivore.
Species
H. tomasetti
Size
Roughly estimated at about 1 meter high at the shoulder, and about 2 meters long.
Known locations
New Guinea.
Time Period
Pleistocene.
Fossil representation
Almost complete skull, lower jaw, vertebrae and a humerus (upper arm bone).
Hulitherium is a genus of diprotodont wombat that lived in New guinea during the Pleistocene. Not much is known about Hulitherium, though the arm structure suggests that this genus was significantly more mobile than other diprotodonts.
Further reading- A new late Pleistocene diprotodontid (Marsupialia) from Pureni, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. – BMR Journal of Australian Geology & Geophysics. 10: 65–76. – T. F. Flannery – 1986.
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