Diprotodontidae

Diprotodontidae
Temporal occurrence
Oligocene to Pleistocene
Locations
Australia , New Guinea
Systematics
Marsupials (Marsupialia) Australidelphia Diprotodontia Wombatoid (Vombatoidea) Diprotodontoidea Diprotodontidae
Scientific name
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
  • Diprotodontinae
    • Ngapakaldia
    • Pitikantia
      • Bematherium
        • Pyramios
          • Meniscolophus
          • Euowenia
            • Euryzygoma
            • Diprotodon
  • Zygomaturinae
    • Raemeotherium
    • Silvabestius
      • Alkwertatherium
        • Nimbadon
          • Colopsoides
          • Plaisiodon
            • Neohelos
              • Colopsis
              • unnamed genus
                • Zygomaturus
                • unnamed genus
                  • Hulitherium
                  • Maokopia

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

1. ↑ 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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