Euowenia

Euowenia
Temporal range: Pliocene to Pleistocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Diprotodontidae
Genus: Euowenia
De Vis 1887
Species
  • E. grata
  • E. robusta

Euowenia is an extinct genus of Diprotodontia which existed from the Pliocene to the upper Pleistocene.[1][2][3][4][5] Weighing around 500 kg,[6] Euowenia is only known from three locations on mainland Australia, Chinchilla in Queensland, Menindee in New South Wales and the Tirari formation on the Warburton River in the Lake Eyre basin.[7]

References

  • Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution by John A. Long, Michael Archer, Timothy Flannery, and Suzanne Hand (page 79)
  • Dinosaur Encyclopedia by Jayne Parsons (page 207)
  1. ↑ MacPhee, R. D. E. (1999-06-30). Extinctions in Near Time. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9780306460920.
  2. ↑ Long, John A.; Archer, Michael (2002-01-01). Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution. UNSW Press. ISBN 9780868404356.
  3. ↑ "Anaspides.net". www.anaspides.net. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
  4. ↑ "Megafauna". austhrutime.com. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
  5. ↑ Johnson (2002). "Determinants of loss of mammal species during the Late Quaternary 'megafauna' extinctions: life history and ecology, but not body size" (PDF). Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 269: 2221–2227. doi:10.1098/rspb.2002.2130.
  6. ↑ MacPhee, Ross D. E.; SUES, HANS-DIETER (2013-11-09). Extinctions in Near Time: Causes, Contexts, and Consequences. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9781475752021.
  7. ↑ Camens, Aaron B.; Wells, Roderick T. (2009). "Palaeobiology of Euowenia grata (Marsupialia: Diprotodontinae) and its Presence in Northern South Australia" (PDF). Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 17: 3–19. doi:10.1007/s10914-009-9121-2.


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