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Phascolomys parvus Owen, 1872

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Invalid (synonym of Vombatus ursinus) (Dawson, 1983)

Last record: Pleistocene

 

Distribution

eastern Australia

 

Anatomy & Morphology

 

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Dawson, L. (1983). The taxonomic status of small fossil wombats (Vombatidae: Marsupialia) from Quaternary deposits, and of related modern wombats. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 107: 101-123.

Merrilees, Duncan. (1967). Cranial and mandibular characteristics of modern mainland wombats (Marsupialia : Vombatidae) from a palaeontological view point, and their bearing on the fossils called Phascolomys parvus by Owen (1872). Records of the South Australian Museum 15: 399-418.

 

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