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Muramura

Extinct genus of marsupials

Muramura williamsi is an extinct Australian wynardiid marsupial, related to the modern koala and wombat. Around the size of a dog at 65 cm (26 in) in length, it was a herbivore. Fossils range in age from the Late Oligocene to the Pliocene in age.

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