Bohra paulae Flannery & Szalay, 1982
Giant tree kangaroo (proposed)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
New South Wales, Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: AM F62099
Other specimens:
AM F62100
AM F62101 (tibia) (Dawson, 1985:66)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Flannery, Timothy F. and Szalay, Frederick. (1982). Bohra paulae: A new giant fossil tree kangaroo (Marsupialia: Macropodidae) from New South Wales, Australia. Australian Mammalogy 5(2): 83-94.
Other references:
Dawson, Lyndall. (1985). Marsupial fossils from Wellington Caves, New South Wales; the historic and scientific significance of the collections in the Australia Museum, Sydney. Records of the Australian Museum 37(2): 55-69.
Prideaux, Gavin J. and Warburton, Natalie M. (2009). Bohra nullarbora sp. nov., a second tree-kangaroo (Marsupialia: Macropodidae) from the Pleistocene of the Nullarbor Plain, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 25(2): 165-179.
Prideaux, Gavin J. and Warburton, Natalie M. (2023). A review of the late Cenozoic genus Bohra (Diprotodontia: Macropodidae) and the evolution of tree-kangaroos. Zootaxa 5299(1): 1-95. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5299.1.1
Travouillon, Kenny J., Jackson, Stephen, Beck, Robin M. D., Louys, Julien, Cramb, Jonathan, Gillespie, Anna, Black, Karen, Hand, Suzanne, Archer, Michael, Kear, Benjamin, Hocknull, Scott, Phillips, Matthew, McDowell, Matthew, Fitzgerald, Erich M. G., Brewer, Phillipa and Price, Gilbert J. (2024). Checklist of the Fossil Mammal Species of Australia and New Guinea. Available from: https://www.australasianpalaeontologists.com/national-fossil-species-lists [Accessed 24 November 2024]
Warburton, Natalie M. and Prideaux, Gavin J. (2010). Functional pedal morphology of the extinct tree-kangaroo Bohra (Diprotodontia: Macropodidae), pp. 137-151. In: Coulson, Graeme and Eldridge, Mark. Macropods: The Biology of Kangaroos, Wallabies and Rat-Kangaroos. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing.