Diprotodon minor Huxley, 1862
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym)
Distribution
Australia
Anatomy & Morphology
A mass of 900kg was given by (Johnson & Prideaux, 2004:557; Johnson, 2006:18).
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Huxley, T. H. (1862). On the premolar teeth of Diprotodon, and on a new species of that genus. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 18: 422-427.
Other references:
De Vis CW 1888. On Diprotodon minor- Hux. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 4: 38–44.
Gill, E. D. (1954). The range and extinction of Diprotodon minor Huxley. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 66: 225-228.
Johnson, Chris N. (2006). Australia's Mammal Extinctions: A 50 000 Year History. Port Melbourne, Victoria: Cambridge University Press. x + 278 pp. [p. 18]
Johnson, Chris N. and Prideaux, Gavin J. (2004). Extinctions of herbivorous mammals in the late Pleistocene of Australia in relation to their feeding ecology: no evidence for environmental change as cause of extinction. Australian Ecology 29: 553-557. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-9993.2004.01389.x
Krefft G 1875. Remarks on the working of the molar teeth of the diprotodons. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 31: 317–318.
Longman HA 1924. Some Queensland fossil vertebrates. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8: 16–28.
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.
Marcus LF 1976. The Bingara fauna, a Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from Murchinson County, New South Wales, Australia. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 114: 1–146.
Murray, P. F. (1991). The Pleistocene megafauna of Australia, pp. 1071-1164. In: Vickers-Rich P, Monaghan JM, Baird RF, Rich TH eds Vertebrate Palaeontology of Australasia. Melbourne: Pioneer Design Studio & Monash University.
Price, Gilbert J. (2008). Taxonomy and palaeobiology of the largest-ever marsupial, Diprotodon Owen, 1838 (Diprotodontidae, Marsupialia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 153(2): 389-417. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00387.x
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