Wakaleo

Wakaleo (Diyari waka, "little", "small"; and Latin leo, "lion") is an extinct genus of medium-sized thylacoleonids that lived in Australia in the Late Oligocene and Miocene Epochs.

==Taxonomy == Wakaleo was erected in 1974 by W. A. Clemens and M. Plane. Five species are known: Wakaleo alcootaensis was found in the Miocene Waite Formation in the Northern Territory in 1974. It was slightly larger than the other two species. Wakaleo oldfieldi was found by a group of scientists working in the Miocene Wipijiri Formation in southern Australia in 1971. They found a nearly complete left dentary which included a few well-preserved teeth. Wakaleo pitikantensis described by Rauscher as the type species of the genus Priscileo in 1987 and placed with this genus in a revision published in 2017. Wakaleo schouteni Gillespie, Archer & Hand, 2017, a mid-sized species of the genus. Wakaleo vanderleuri was first found by field workers in 1967 in the Miocene Camfield Beds in the Northern Territory. Many more specimens have been found since then.