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Megaladapis edwardsi Grandidier, 1899

Edward's koala lemur

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Holocene

 

Distribution

Madagascar

 

Biology

 

 

Hypodigm

FMG 125

 

Media

 

 

References

Alcover, Josep Antoni et al. (1998). Mammal Species of the World: Additional Data on Insular Mammals. American Museum Novitates 3248, 29 pp., 1 table.

Godfrey, L.R., W. L. Jungers and G.T. Schwartz. (2006). Ecology and extinction of Madagascar’s subfossil lemurs. Pp. 41-64 in: Gould, L. and M. Sauther, eds., Lemurs: Ecology and Adaptation. Springer, New York.

Goodman, Steven M. et al. (2013). Bird fossils from Ankilitelo Cave: Inference about Holocene environmental changes in Southwestern Madagascar. Zootaxa 3750(5): 534-548.

Joseph, Grant S. and Seymour, Colleen L. (2022). Are Madagascar's obligate grazing-lawns ancient and evolved with endemic herbivores, or recently selected by introduced cattle? Biology Letters 18: 20220212.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2022.0212

Lorenz von Liburnau, L. R. (1905). Megaladapis edwardsi G. Grandidier: Denkschrift der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien 77: 451-490.

Meador, Lindsay Renee. (2017). Who Ate the Subfossil Lemurs? A Taphonomic and Community Study of Raptor, Crocodylian and Carnivoran Predation of the Extinct Quaternary Lemurs of Madagascar. Dissertation. xvii + 388 pp.

Mitchell, Kieren J. (2021). Ancient DNA from the koala lemur puts Madagascar on the paleogenomic map. PNAS 118(30): e2110218118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2110218118

Montagnon D, Ravaoarimanana B, Rakotosamimanana B, Rumpler Y. (2001). Ancient DNA from Megaladapis edwardsi (Malagasy subfossil): preliminary results using partial cytochrome b sequence. Folia Primatol 72(1): 30-32.

Muldoon, Kathleen M. et al. (2012). Early Holocene fauna from a new subfossil site: A first assessment from Christmas River, south central Madagascar. Madagascar Conservation & Development 7(1): 23-29.

Rafferty, K. L., Teaford, M. F. and Jungers, W. L. (2002). Molar microwear of subfossil lemurs: improving the resolution of dietary inferences. Journal of Human Evolution 43: 645-657.

Rosenberger, Alfred L. et al. (In Press, 2015). Giant subfossil lemur graveyard discovered, submerged, in Madagascar. Journal of Human Evolution. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.01.004

Tattersall, I. (1973). A note on the age of the subfossil site of Ampasambazimba, Miarinarivo Province, Malagasy Republic. American Museum Novitates 2520: 1-6.

Zapfe, H. (1963). Lebensbild von Megaladapis edwardsi (Grandidier): Ein Rekonstruktionsversuch. Folia primatol. 1: 178-187.

 

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