Conilurus capricornensis Cramb & Hocknull, 2010
Capricorn rabbit(-)rat, Capricornian rabbit(-)rat
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Conilurus sp. (Hocknull, 2005:55)
Conservation Status
Extinct (Burbidge, 2024)
Last record: Holocene
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Queensland, Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Cramb, Jonathan and Hocknull, Scott. (2010). New Quaternary records of Conilurus (Rodentia: Muridae) from eastern and northern Australia with the description of a new species. Zootaxa 2634: 41-56. [Abstract]
Other references:
Burbidge, Andrew A. (2024). Australian terrestrial mammals: how many modern extinctions? Australian Mammalogy. https://doi.org/10.1071/AM23037
Hocknull, Scott A. (2005). Ecological succession during the late Cainozoic of central eastern Queensland: extinction of adiverse rainforest community. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 51(1): 39-122. [automatic download]
Jackson, Stephen and Groves, Colin. (2015). Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Clayton South, Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing. 529 pp. [p. 190]
Louys, Julien et al. (2023). Interim report on the vertebrate deposits recovered from the Capricorn Caves, Rockhampton, Queensland. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2022.2157486
Price, Gilbert J., Cramb, Jonathan, Louys, Julien, Travouillon, Kenny J., Pease, Eleanor M. A., Feng, Yue-xing, Zhao, Jian-xin and Irvin, Douglas. (2020). Late Quaternary fossil vertebrates of the Broken River karst area, northern Queensland, Australia. In Papers in Honour of Ken Aplin, Louys, J., O’Connor, S. & Helgen, K.M., eds. Records of the Australian Museum 72(5): 193-206.
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