Pachylemur jullyi (G. Grandidier, 1899)
Northern giant ruffed lemur
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Palaeochirogalus jullyi G. Grandidier, 1899; Lemur jullyi Standing, 1904; Lemur maxiensis Standing, 1904; Lemur majori Standing, 1908
Conservation Status
Extinct
Distribution
Madagascar
Biology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Grandidier, G. (1899). Description d'ossements de Lémuriens disparus. Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. 5: 344–348.
Other 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.
Crovella, S., Montagnon, D., Rakotosamimanana, B. & Rumpler, Y. 1994. Molecular biology and systematics of an extinct lemur: Pachylemur insignis. Primates 35, 519-522.
Crowley, Brooke Erin, Godfrey, Laurie Rohde and Samonds, Karen Elizabeth. (2023). What can hippopotamus isotopes tell us about past distributions of C4 grassy biomes on Madagascar? Plants, People, Planet. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10402
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
Jungers, W.L., Demes, B. & Godfrey, L.R. 2008 How big were the "giant" extinct lemurs of Madagascar? In Elwyn Simons: a search for origins (ed. J.G. Fleagle & C.C. Gilbert), pp. 343-360. New York: Springer.
Karanth, K.P., Delefosse, T., Rakotosamimanana, B., Parsons, T.J. & Yoder, A.D. 2005. Ancient DNA from giant extinct lemurs confirms single origin of Malagasy primates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 102, 5090-5095.
Samonds, Karen E. et al. (2019). A new late Pleistocene subfossil site (Tsaramody, Sambaina basin, central Madagascar) with implications for the chronology of habitat and megafaunal community change on Madagascar’s Central Highlands. Journal of Quaternary Science 34(6): 379-392. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3096
Standing, H.F. (1904). "Rapport sur des ossements sub-fossiles provenant d'Ampasambazibma. 1. — Les Lémuriens (Suite)". Bulletin de l'Académie malgache. 3: 305–310.
Standing, H.F. (1908). On recently discovered subfossil primates from Madagascar. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. 18 (2): 59–162.
Turvey, Samuel T. (2009). Holocene mammal extinctions, pp. 41-61. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.
Turvey, Samuel T. and Fritz, Susanne A. (2011). The ghosts of mammals past: biological and geographical patterns of global mammalian extinction across the Holocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366(1577): 2564-2576. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0020 [Supplementary Information]