# Djarthia

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***Djarthia*** is an extinct monotypic [genus](/source/Genus) of [marsupial](/source/Marsupial). It is the oldest marsupial found in [Australia](/source/Australia), discovered at the [Murgon fossil site](/source/Murgon_fossil_site) in south-eastern [Queensland](/source/Queensland).

***D.*** ***murgonensis*** was described from material identified as [Early Eocene](/source/Early_Eocene) Tingamarran fauna, first published in 1999.[1] It was placed with the clade [Australidelphia](/source/Australidelphia), which includes the marsupials that dispersed throughout Eastern [Gondwanan](/source/Gondwana) supercontinent during the Eocene and remain extant in Australia and South America. Skeletal material described include a [molar](/source/Molar_(tooth)), incomplete [cochlear](/source/Cochlea) and [tarsal](/source/Tarsus_(skeleton)) bone either complete or in fragmented state of preservation.[2]

## References

1. Godthelp, Henk; Wroe, Stephen; & Archer, Michael (1999). "A New Marsupial from the Early Eocene Tingamarra Local Fauna of Murgon, Southeastern Queensland: A Prototypical Australian Marsupial?". *Journal of Mammalian Evolution*. **6** (3): 289–313. [doi:10.1023/A:1020517808869](https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020517808869). [ISSN 1573-7055](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/1573-7055). [S2CID 39325291](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:39325291)

1. Beck, Robin M. D.; Godthelp, Henk; Weisbecker, Vera; Archer, Michael; & Hand, Suzanne J. (2008). "Australia's Oldest Marsupial Fossils and their Biogeographical Implications". *[PLoS ONE](/source/PLoS_ONE)*. **3** (3). [Public Library of Science](/source/Public_Library_of_Science). [Bibcode:2008PLoSO...3.1858B](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008PLoSO...3.1858B). [doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001858](https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001858). [PMC 2267999](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2267999). [PMID 18365013](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18365013)

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