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Wombats are short-legged,
muscular quadrupedal marsupials of the
family Vombatidae that are
native to Australia.
Living species are
about 1 m (40 in) in...
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suborder are extinct; only the
families Phascolarctidae, with the koala, and
Vombatidae, with
three extant species of wombat, survive.
Among the
extinct families...
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relatives of the
Phascolarctidae are the wombats,
which comprise the
family Vombatidae. The
fossil record of the
family dates back to the
Middle Miocene or Late...
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Petauroidea is debated.
Order Diprotodontia Suborder Vombatiformes Family Vombatidae:
wombats (three species)
Family Phascolarctidae:
koala (one species) Family...
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Mammals are
divided into two
subclasses based on
reproductive techniques: egg
laying mammals (the monotremes), and live
birth mammals. The
second subclass...
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Ramsayia and Sedophascolomys. Louys,
Julien (3 July 2015). "Wombats (
Vombatidae: Marsupialia) from the
Pliocene Chinchilla Sand,
southeast Queensland...
- Janssen, and
Stephen D. Johnston. "Wombat
reproduction (Marsupialia;
Vombatidae): an
update and ****ure
directions for the
development of
artificial breeding...
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Order Diprotodontia (117 species)
Family Phascolarctidae:
koala Family Vombatidae:
wombats Family Phalangeridae:
brushtail possums and
cuscuses Family Burramyidae:...
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University of
Michigan Museum of Zoology.
Animal Diversity Wells, R. (1989). "
Vombatidae" (PDF). In Walton, D.W. (ed.).
Fauna of Australia. Canberra, Australia:...
- has only four
species in two families: Phascolarctidae, the koala, and
Vombatidae, the wombats. The
classification of
species in the
order is not fixed...
