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HULITHERIUM
(hu-le-fee-re-um)
meaning: "Huli beast"
Hulitherium
Named By: Flannery & Plane in 1986
Time Period: Pleistocene
Location: New Guinea
Size: Roughly estimated at about 1 meter high at the shoulder, and about 2 meters long
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Almost complete skull, lower jaw, vertebrae and a humerus (upper arm bone)
Classification: | Chordata | Mammalia | Marsupialia | Diprotodontia | Vombatiformes | Zygomaturidae |
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Hulitherium tomasetti (meaning "Huli beast", after the Huli people) is an extinct zygomaturine marsupial from New Guinea during the Pleistocene. The species name honours Bernard Tomasetti who brought the fossils to the attention of experts.

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