Ilariidae

Ilariidae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Marsupialia
Order:	Diprotodontia
Infraorder:	Vombatomorphia
Family:	†Ilariidae; Tedford & Woodburne, 1987
Genera
	†Ilaria; †Kuterintja; †Nimbadon

The Ilariidae is a family of fossil mammals. Most ilariids are found in the middle Tertiary faunal assemblages of South Australia. Ilaria illumidens is the best-preserved representative of this extinct clade of vombatiforms.

The species^[which?] is found in the Namba Formation of Late Oligocene age, at Lake Pinpa, South Australia. The material consists of a partial cranium and mandibular fragments with most of the dentition, together with parts of the postcranial skeleton.^[1] The other species in this family are known from a few jaw fragments and intact molars attached; they are categorised in a separate family because their teeth structure is unique among Diprotodontia, in having a complicated folding pattern. Ilariids are thought to be the largest marsupials of their time in the Lake Eyre and Tarkarooloo basin.

References

^ http://www.tc.umn.edu/~jansa003/NSF/Fossils2.pdf accessed 2010-05-21^{[dead link]}

Patricia Vickers-Rich and Thomas Hewett Rich 1993 Wildlife of Gondwana Reed Books, Chatswood, New South Wales ISBN 0-7301-0315-3 Reed.

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[1] ttp://www.tc.umn.edu/~jansa003/NSF/Fossils2.pdf accessed 2010-05-21^{[dead link]}

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