# Barinya

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***Barinya*** is a fossil genus from the [marsupial](/source/Marsupial) family [Dasyuridae](/source/Dasyuridae), which contains the oldest known undoubted dasyurid.[2] It is the only genus in the subfamily **Barinyainae**.

The principal differences between *Barinya* and more recent dasyurids are in the dentition and skull morphology, with *Barinya* displaying more primitive features. One described fossil exists and at least one remains to be described. This genus has only been found at [Riversleigh](/source/Australian_Fossil_Mammal_Sites_(Riversleigh)) in [Queensland](/source/Queensland), where it is quite common in deposits from the [Oligo](/source/Oligocene)-[Miocene](/source/Miocene).[3]

## References

1. Pippa Binfield; Michael Archer; Suzanne J. Hand; Karen H. Black; Troy J. Myers; Anna K. Gillespie; & Derrick A. Arena (2017). "A new Miocene carnivorous marsupial, *Barinya kutjamarpensis* (Dasyuromorphia), from central Australia". *Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology*. **41** (1): 46–53. [doi:10.1080/03115518.2016.1180029](https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2016.1180029). [hdl:1959.4/unsworks_40298](https://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/unsworks_40298). [S2CID 133283494](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:133283494)

1. Long, J., Archer, M., Flannery, T. and Hand, S. 2002. *Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution*. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 51. ISBN 0-8018-7223-5.

1. Wroe, S. 1999. ["The geologically oldest dasyurid, from the Miocene of Riversleigh, north-west Queensland"](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1475-4983.00082/pdf). *Paleontology*. 42:501-527. [doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00082](https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4983.00082).

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