Khasia
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Microbiotheria |
| Family: | Microbiotheriidae |
| Genus: | †Khasia Marshall and de Muizon, 1988[1] |
| Species: | †K. cordillerensis
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| †Khasia cordillerensis Marshall and de Muizon, 1988
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Khasia ("from Antin Khasa") is a fossil genus of marsupial in the family Microbiotheriidae. It contains one known species, Khasia cordillerensis, which is known from teeth found in the Santa Lucia Formation of Mizque, Bolivia, where it lived alongside the sparassodonts Allqokirus, Mayulestes and Pucadelphys.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ L. G. Marshall and C. de Muizon. 1988. The Dawn of the Age of Mammals in South America. National Geographic Research 4:23-55
- ^ "Fossilworks:Tiupampa site 1, the "quarry"".
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