Miocene Galadi enters the LRT as an omnivorous opossum, not as a predatory bandicoot
Galadi speciousus (Travouillon et al 2010, Oligo-Miocene) was originally considered a predatory bandicoot. Here in the large reptile tree (LRT, 2180 taxa) Galadi nests between the extant opossum Didelphis clade and the Early Cretaceous Vincelestes clade. Molar morphology indicates omnivory.
I found this taxon
while reading the cladogram on a Gillespie, Archer and Hand 2016 study on Microleo. On a very small, cherry-picked taxon list, they nested Galadi and Barinya basal to the wombat clade. In the LRT they are not close to Microleo nor to wombats. Missing from the Gillespie, Archer and Hand study is Petaurus, the extant sugar glider, which nests basal to Wakaleo and Thylacoleo in the LRT.
This post relates to the last post
on Barinya, a placental-like marsupial.
References
Gillespie AK, Archer M and Hand SJ 2016. A tiny new marsupial lion (Marsupialia, Thylacoleonidae) from the early Miocene of Australia. Palaeontologia Electronica. Palaeontological Association. 19 (2.26A): 1–26.
Travouillon KJ, Gurovich Y; Beck RMD and Muirhead J 2010. An exceptionally well-preserved short-snouted bandicoot (Marsupialia; Peramelemorphia) from Riversleigh’s Oligo-Miocene deposits, northwestern Queensland, Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30 (5): 1528–1546.
Travouillon K et al (4 co-authors) 2013. The genus Galadi: three new bandicoots (Marsupialia, Peramelemorphia) from Riversleigh’s Miocene deposits, northwestern Queensland, Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33 (1): 153–168.
Source: https://pterosaurheresies.wordpress.com/2022/12/11/miocene-galadi-enters-the-lrt-as-an-omnivorous-opossum-not-as-a-predatory-bandicoot/
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