''Perameles allinghamensis'', the Bluff Downs bandicoot, is a small extinct
bandicoot
Bandicoots are a group of more than 20 species of small to medium-sized, terrestrial, largely nocturnal marsupial omnivores in the order Peramelemorphia. They are endemic to the Australia–New Guinea region, including the Bismarck Archipela ...
that lived in
Australia
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4 million years ago in the
Pliocene
The Pliocene ( ; also Pleiocene) is the epoch (geology), epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.33 to 2.58Bluff Downs fossil site in northern
Queensland
Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...
. Its diet probably consisted of insects and soft roots dug for with its front claws.http://www.abc.net.au/science/ausbeasts/factfiles/bluffdownsbandicoot.htm ABC: Ausbeasts