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]