Meniscolophus is an extinct genus of Diprotodontia known from the early Pliocene of the Tirari Desert, South Australia.
| Meniscolophus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | †Diprotodontidae |
| Genus: | †Meniscolophus Stirton, 1955 |
| Species: | †M. mawsoni
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| Binomial name | |
| †Meniscolophus mawsoni Stirton, 1955
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References edit
- Long, J., Archer, M., Flannery, T., & Hand, S. (2002) Prehistoric mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One hundred million years of evolution. University of New South Wales Press (page 79)
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