Lasiorhinus krefftii krefftii (Owen, 1873)

Pleistocene hairy-nosed wombat

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

"Subspecific status within Lasiorhinus krefftii requires further research because L. k. krefftii is known only from fossil material and L. k. gillespiei is based on a single skin. The extant population is known as L. k. barnardi."

(Burbidge, 2024)

Conservation Status

Extinct (Burbidge, 2024 [but see above])

Last record: Late Pleistocene

Distribution

New South Wales, Australia

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Holotype: BM 42601

Type locality: "colI. Krefft,1866 or 1869 in Breccia Cave" (Dawson, 1985:65)

Media

References

Burbidge, Andrew A. (2024). Australian terrestrial mammals: how many modern extinctions? Australian Mammalogy. https://doi.org/10.1071/AM23037

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.

Flannery, Timothy Fridtjof, Kendall, Paula and Wynn-Moylan, Karen (illustrator). (1990). Australia's Vanishing Mammals: Endangered and Extinct Native Species. Surry Hills, N.S.W.: RD Press. 192 pp.

Jackson, Stephen and Groves, Colin. (2015). Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Clayton South, Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing. 529 pp. [p. 99]

Kirsch, J. A. W. and Calaby, J. H. (1977). The species of living marsupials, an annotated list. In: Stonehouse, B. and Gilmore, D. (eds.). Biology of Marsupials. Melbourne: MacMillan.

Mahoney, J. A. and Ride, W. D. L. (1975). Index to the genera and species of fossil Mammalia described from Australia and New Guinea between 1838 and 1968. Western Australian Museum Special Publication 6: 1-250.

Thornback, Jane and Jenkins, Martin (compilers). (1982). The IUCN Mammal Red Data Book. Part 1: Threatened Mammalian Taxa of the Americas and the Australasian Zoogeographic Region (Excluding Cetacea). Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. 516 pp.

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]

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