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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Sparassodonta |
| Family: | †Hathliacynidae |
| Genus: | †Australogale |
| Species: | †A. leptognathus
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| †Australogale leptognathus Engelman et al., 2018
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Australogale is an extinct genus of hathliacynid sparassodont that lived in Bolivia during the Serravallian stage of the Miocene epoch.1
Description
Australogale leptognathus was a very small sparassodont, weighing only about 840 g. It is distinguished by its lack of a posterobasal heel on the P2, the P2 being much larger than the P3, the lack of an entocristid on the M1, an entocristid positioned lingually to the trigonid on the M2, and a conically shaped entoconid.2
References
References
- "Australogale". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 3 May 2026.
- Engelman, Russell K.; Anaya, Federico; Croft, Darin Andrew (27 June 2018). "Australogale leptognathus, gen. et sp. nov., a Second Species of Small Sparassodont (Mammalia: Metatheria) from the Middle Miocene Locality of Quebrada Honda, Bolivia". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 27 (1): 37–54. doi:10.1007/s10914-018-9443-z. ISSN 1064-7554. Retrieved 3 May 2026 – via Springer Nature Link.