Diprotodontinae

Diprotodontinae
Temporal occurrence
Oligocene to Pleistocene
Locations
Australia , New Guinea
Systematics
Marsupials (Marsupialia) Australidelphia Diprotodontia Diprotodontoidea Diprotodontidae Diprotodontinae
Scientific name
Diprotodontinae
Gill , 1872; sensu Black & Mackness , 1999

The Diprotodontinae are a subfamily of the Australian-New Guinean megafauna within the Diprotodontidae family . Animals belonging to this subfamily existed from the late Oligocene to the late Pleistocene and were among the largest marsupials in geological history.

General systematics

The Diprotodontinae is a subfamily of the Diprotodontidae. It was named after its most famous representative, Diprotodon . The second subfamily of the Diprotodontidae is the Zygomaturinae .

Internal system

after Black, Mackness 1999 (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 ) :

• Diprotodontinae
  • Ngapakaldia
  • Pitikantia
    • Bematherium
      • Pyramios
        • Meniscolophus
        • Euowenia
          • Euryzygoma
          • Diprotodon

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 .