New Marsupial Lineage Emerges from Australian Fossils

Jun 15, 2026 - 11:00
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New Marsupial Lineage Emerges from Australian Fossils
Reconstruction of Phantasmodon travouilloni in the Early Miocene rainforests of northwestern Queensland. Image credit: Peter Schouten.

Paleontologists have described a new genus and three new species of small, insect-eating marsupials from the Early Miocene deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area in northwestern Queensland, one of Australia’s richest fossil sites.

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