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Macropus cooperi Owen, 1874

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Osphranter cooperi Owen, 1874

 

Conservation Status

Extinct or Invalid (synonym of Osphranter robustus altus) (Travouillon et al., 2024)

Last record: Late Pleistocene

 

Distribution

Australia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

http://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/object.php?irn=1065076&QueryPage=%2Fresults.php

 

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References

Original scientific description:

Owen, Richard. (1874). On the fossil mammals of Australia. Part VIII. Family Macropodidae: Genera Macropus, Osphranter, Phascolagus, .Sthenurus, and Protemnodon. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. 164: 245-87, pls 20-7.

 

Other references:

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.

Marshall, L. G. and Corruccini, R. S. (1978). Variability, evolutionary rates, and allometry in dwarfing lineages. Paleobiology 4: 101-119. [Abstract]

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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