Hypsiprymnodon karenblackae
| Hypsiprymnodon karenblackae Temporal range: Early Miocene,
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | Hypsiprymnodontidae |
| Genus: | Hypsiprymnodon |
| Species: | †H. karenblackae
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| Binomial name | |
| †Hypsiprymnodon karenblackae Bates, et al. 2014.
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Hypsiprymnodon karenblackae is an extinct species of small macropod marsupial that inhabited northwestern Australia during the Early Miocene. It is known from an upper jaw bone that was found at the Riversleigh World Heritage Area. It is considered to be one of the earliest Hypsiprymnodon species known. Much like its closest living relative, the musky rat-kangaroo, it was frugivorous.