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Macropus rama Bartholomai, 1975

Mountain kangaroo

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

 

Distribution

Australia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

Holotype: QM F4773 (partial skull)

Type locality: King Creek, Pilton, Queensland, Australia

Other specimens:

F47115 (Dawson, 1985:67)

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Bartholomai, A. (1975). The genus Macropus Shaw (Marsupialia: Macropodidae) in the upper Cainozoic deposits of Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 17(2): 195-235.

 

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.

Paleobiology Database. (2012). Macropus rama Bartholomai 1975. Available at: http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=basicTaxonInfo&taxon_no=162559 [Accessed 4-8-2012]

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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