Muramura

{{Short description|Extinct genus of marsupials}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range =Late Oligocene-Pliocene

| taxon = Muramura

| authority = Pledge, 1987

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = M. williamsi

}}

Muramura williamsi is an extinct Australian wynardiid marsupial, related to the modern koala and wombat. Around the size of a dog, it was a herbivore.{{cite book|last=John A. Long, Michael Archer|title=Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution|publisher=UNSW Press|year=2002|pages=117 |isbn=0868404357|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LwMkO0M1mPQC&dq=Muramura+williamsi&pg=PA117}} Fossils range in age from the Late Oligocene to the Pliocene in age.

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