Tingamarra Bandicoot
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Tingamarra Bandicoot, Lost Kingdom Project 2004
Image: A Musser
© Australian Museum
© Australian Museum
Fast Facts
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- Size Range
- Length (head and body): 25cm
Lived
55 million years ago, early Eocene.
Description
The Tingamarra Bandicoot probably ate small animals and fruits in the forests of a swampy Eocene landscape. This little animal may provide crucial clues for working out how major groups of Australian and South American marsupials are related to one another.
Fossils
Fossilised teeth of the Tingamarra Bandicoot were discovered in 1995 at Murgon, southeastern Queensland.
Did you know?
The Tingamarra Bandicoot is more than twice as old as any other fossil bandicoot known.
