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A New Pleistocene Tree-Kangaroo (Diprotodontia: Macropodidae) From the Nullarbor Plain of South-Central Australia

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2008
This paper describes a new tree-kangaroo of the extinct genus Bohra (B. illuminata sp. nov.). Its remains were collected from a diverse middle Pleistocene fauna preserved in caves recently discovered beneath the Nullarbor Plain of south-central Australia.
Natalie M Warburton, Gavin J. Prideaux
exaly   +3 more sources

Pedal Morphology of the Marsupial Lion Thylacoleo Carnifex (Diprotodontia: Thylacoleonidae) From the Pleistocene of Australia

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2009
(2009). Pedal morphology of the marsupial lion Thylacoleo carnifex (Diprotodontia: Thylacoleonidae) from the Pleistocene of Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 1335-1340.
Roderick T Wells
exaly   +4 more sources

Locomotion, postures, substrate use, and foot grasping in the marsupial feathertail glider Acrobates pygmaeus (Diprotodontia: Acrobatidae): Insights into early euprimate evolution.

Journal of Human Evolution, 2018
Debates on early euprimate evolution are related to the understanding of the ecological context that promoted their unique adaptations. Currently, these discussions mainly revolve around the habitual use of the small-branch niche or the frequent ...
D. Youlatos, D. Moussa, Nikolaos-Evangelos Karantanis, L. Rychlik   +3 more
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Indonesian Cuscuses (Diprotodontia: Phalangeridae): Status and Perspective

, 2022
Rosichon Ubaidillah, Abinawanto
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Diagonal gaits in the feathertail glider Acrobates pygmaeus (Acrobatidae, Diprotodontia): Insights for the evolution of primate quadrupedalism.

Journal of Human Evolution, 2015
Research on primate origins has revolved around arboreality and, more specifically, the adaptations that are linked to safe navigation in the fine-branch niche. To this end, extant non-primate mammals have been used as models to assess the significance of these adaptations.
Nikolaos-Evangelos Karantanis, D. Youlatos, L. Rychlik   +2 more
semanticscholar   +4 more sources

The phylogenetic position of the musky rat-kangaroo and the evolution of bipedal hopping in kangaroos (Macropodidae: Diprotodontia). [PDF]

Systematic Biology, 1998
Kangaroos and their relatives (family Macropodidae) are divided into the subfamilies Macropodinae (kangaroos, wallabies, pademelons) and Potoroinae (rat-kangaroos, potoroos, bettongs). The musky rat-kangaroo, Hypsiprymnodon moschatus, is traditionally allied with other potoroines, based primarily on the basis of osteological characters and aspects of ...
A. Burk, Michael Westerman, Mark S. Springer   +2 more
semanticscholar   +4 more sources

Tjukuru Wellsi, Gen. Et sp. nov., a Lagostrophine Kangaroo (Diprotodontia, Macropodidae) From the Pliocene (Tirarian) of Northern South Australia

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2012
Gavin J. Prideaux, Richard H Tedford
exaly   +2 more sources

On a peculiarity of the cerebral commissures in certain Marsupialia, not hitherto recognised as a distinctive feature or the Diprotodontia [PDF]

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 1902
Abstract It has been known for a considerable time that some of the fibres of the ventral commissure of the cerebrum in certain Marsupials dissociate themselves from the rest of the commissure as soon as they have crossed the mesial plane; and that, instead of passing bodily into the external capsule, which is the usual course of the ...
G. E. Smith
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Petaurus gracilis (Diprotodontia: Petauridae)

Mammalian Species, 2011
Petaurus gracilis (De Vis, 1883) is a gliding possum commonly known as the mahogany glider. This species is endemic to open sclerophyll woodland between Tully and Ingham in North Queensland, Australia. Within its distribution P. gracilis occurs in forests dominated by trees of the genera Eucalyptus, Corymbia, Melaleuca, and Acacia.
S. Jackson
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS AMONG GENERA OF PHALANGERIDAE (METATHERIA: DIPROTODONTIA) INFERRED FROM MITOCHONDRIAL DNA [PDF]

Journal of Mammalogy, 2005
We sequenced the 12S rRNA gene of 2 elusive and morphologically plesiomorphic species of phalanger: the small Sulawesi cuscus (Strigocuscus celebensis—Gray, 1858) and the Sulawesi bear cuscus (Ailurops ursinus— Temminck, 1824). The sequences were integrated with previously existing data on the same gene in other species of phalangerids, as well as ...
L. Ruedas, J. Morales
semanticscholar   +5 more sources