What is Ekaltadeta?
{{Taxobox | name = ''Ekaltadeta'' | fossil_range = [[Oligocene]] to [[Pleistocene]] | image = Ekaltadeta ima.jpg | image_width = 250px | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[Mammalia]] | infraclassis = [[Marsupialia]] | ordo = [[Diprotodontia]] | familia = [[Hypsiprymnodontidae]] | subfamilia = [[Propleopinae]] | genus = '''''Ekaltadeta''''' | genus_authority = [[Archer (biologist)|Archer]] & [[Flannery (biologist)|Flannery]], 1985 | subdivision_ranks = [[Species]] | subdivision = * †''E. wellingtonensis'' * †''E. ima'' * †''E. jamiemulvaneyi'' }} The '''Ekaltadeta''' was a giant, meat-eating rat-[[kangaroo]] from Australia. This long-extinct [[marsupial]] (pouched mammal) lived from the late [[Oligocene]] (roughly 25 million years ago) until about 50 thousands years ago. Fossils have been found in northern [[Australia]], at the Riversleigh site (in [[Queensland]]). {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Marsupials of Australia]] [[Category:Fossils]]