The great hopping mouse ( Notomys robustus ) is a first described in 2008 Type of Australian Hüpfmäuse that only through 1976 found skull fragments from the Gewölle of owls in the Flinders Ranges is known. In 1981, the Australian paleontologists Christopher HS Watts and Heather J. Aslin estimated this material to be between 100 and 300 years old. Judging by the spitting balls, which also contained the bones of imported house mice , it apparently survived until historical times, possibly until the second half of the 19th century . The skull suggests that it was quite large. It may have reached the size of the short-tailed jumping mouse or even got bigger. She probably preferred tussock grasslands and clay soils .
literature
Christopher HS Watts, Heather J. Aslin: The Rodents of Australia. Angus & Robertson, London 1981, ISBN 0-207-14235-1 .
JA Mahoney, MJ Smith, GC Medlin: A new species of hopping-mouse, Notomys robustus sp. nov. (Rodentia: Muridae), from cave deposits in the Flinders and Davenport Ranges, South Australia. In: Australian Mammalogy. Vol. 29, No. 2, 2008, pp. 117-136, doi : 10.1071 / AM07017 .
