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Dinosaurs - Kambara implexidens
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/fact-sheets/kambara-implexidens/

Kambara implexidens, from the early Eocene of Queensland, was a mekosuchine, an ancient group of primitive Gondwanan crocodiles.

Chunia illuminata
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/chunia-illuminata/

Chunia was a primitive ektopodontid, a distinctive group of Cainozoic Australian possums that may have been specialized seed-eaters. Ektopodontids, first thought to be monotremes, had short faces, large, forward-facing eyes and the most unusual and complex teeth of any marsupial.

Murgon Bat
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/australonycteris-clarkae/

Australonycteris clarkae

Tingamarra Alamitophis
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/alamitophis-tingamarra/

Alamitophis tingamarra was a small Eocene madtsoiid, an extinct family of primitive snakes known mainly from Gondwana. Madtsoiids have the longest fossil record of any group of snakes, with a record that stretches from about 90 million to 100,000 years ago.

Paljara tirarense
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/paljara-tirarense/

Paljara tirarense was a small ringtail possum (family Pseudocheiridae) from the early Miocene of South Australia and northwestern Queensland. Ringtail possums were once much more diverse than they are today, distributed across many now-dry parts of Australia that were forested during the Cainozoic.

Dromornis planei (Bullockornis planei)
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/dromornis-planei-bullockornis-planei/

Dromornis planei (Bullockornis planei)

Australia’s extinct animals
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/

Learning about Australia’s extinct fauna helps us to create links through time that relate the animals of the past with those of today.