Nimbavombatus, Brewer, Archer, Hand & Abel, 2015

Brewer, Philippa, Archer, Michael, Hand, Suzanne J. & Abel, Richard, 2014, New genus of primitive wombat (Vombatidae, Marsupialia) from Miocene deposits in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area (Queensland, Australia), Palaeontologia Electronica 102 (8), pp. 1-40 : 3

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.26879/472
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:65F19586-5DC7-4DC1-8599-C16743FF024D
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/585BC343-7820-FFB2-FC5B-FD35A5A737FA
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Nimbavombatus
status	gen. nov.

Treatment

Genus NIMBAVOMBATUS gen. nov.

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Etymology. ‘ Nimba’ is the Waanyi (the local Aboriginal language of the Boodjamulla region) word for ‘small’. ‘Vombatus’ means ‘wombat-like’.

Diagnosis. As for the species diagnosis until additional species are described.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Diprotodontia
Family	Vombatidae

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