Bishops Fossil range: Early Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Subclass:	Australosphenida
Order:	Ausktribosphenida
Family:	Ausktribosphenidae
Genus:	Bishops
Species:	B. whitmorei
Binomial name
Bishops whitmorei Rich et al, 2001

Bishops is a extinct genus of Australosphenida or Theria from Early Cretaceous of Australia. The only recorded species, Bishops whitmorei , was found on Flat Rocks, Victoria. The genus was named in honour of the Dr Barry Bishop, the former Chairman of the Committee for Research and Exploration, National Geographic Society.

[edit] References

• Rich, T. H.; Flannery, T. F.; Trusler, P.; Kool, L.; van Klaveren, N. A. & Vickers-Rich, P. 2001. A second tribosphenic mammal from the Mesozoic of Australia. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum 110: 1-9.

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