Hulitherium
Sign in to saveHulitherium tomasetti (meaning "Huli beast", after the Huli people) is an extinct zygomaturine marsupial that lived in New Guinea during the Pleistocene. The species name honours Berard Tomasetti, a Catholic priest in Papua New Guinea, who brought the fossils to the attention of experts.
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- Parent taxon
- Zygomaturinae
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- taxon name
- Hulitherium
- Commons category
- Hulitherium
- taxon rank
- genus
- time period
- Pleistocene
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Hulitherium tomasetti (meaning "Huli beast", after the Huli people) is an extinct zygomaturine marsupial that lived in New Guinea during the Pleistocene. The species name honours Berard Tomasetti, a Catholic priest in Papua New Guinea, who brought the fossils to the attention of experts.
==Discovery==
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