Diprotodontidae
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Diprotodontidae | ||||||||||||
Gill , 1872 |
The Diprotodontidae are a family of Australian-New Guinean megafauna within the Vombatiformes . Animals belonging to this family existed from the late Oligocene to the late Pleistocene and were among the largest marsupial mammals in geological history.
General systematics
The Diprotodontidae is divided into two subfamilies , the subfamily Diprotodontinae and the subfamily Zygomaturinae , named after their most famous representatives, Diprotodon and Zygomaturus . The family Diprotodontidae together with the family Palorchestidae form the superfamily Diprotodontoidea .
Internal system
According to Black, Mackness 1999:
- Diprotodontidae
literature
- Long, Archer, Flannery, Hand: Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea, one hundred million years of evolution . Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore / London 2002, ISBN 0-8018-7223-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ from: Long, Archer, Flannery, Hand: Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea, one hundred million years of evolution . Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore / London 2002, ISBN 0-8018-7223-5
Web links
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