Biology:Euryzygoma
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Euryzygoma is an extinct genus of marsupial which inhabited humid eucalyptus forests in Queensland and New South Wales during the Pliocene of Australia.[1][2] Euryzygoma is believed to have weighed around 500 kg,[3] and differed from other diprotodontids in having unusual, flaring cheekbones that may have been used either for storing food or for sexual display.[4] Euryzygoma is thought to be the ancestral genus from which Diprotodon evolved.[5]
Palaeoecology
Evidence from δ13C analysis of its fossils from the Chinchilla Local Fauna indicates that Euryzygoma dunense was an intermediate feeder with a significant preference for foraging on C3 plants.[6]
References
- ↑ "Fossilworks: Euryzygoma". https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40188.
- ↑ "Anaspides.net". http://www.anaspides.net/earth_life_sciences/megafauna_extinction.html.
- ↑ MacPhee, R. D. E. (30 June 1999) (in en). Extinctions in Near Time. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-0-306-46092-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=UZLuF1YXYTcC&dq=Euryzygoma&pg=PA251.
- ↑ Long, John A.; Archer, Michael (1 January 2002) (in en). Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution. UNSW Press. ISBN 978-0-86840-435-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=LwMkO0M1mPQC&dq=Euryzygoma&pg=PA88.
- ↑ Price, Gilbert J.; Piper, Katarzyna J. (December 2009). "Gigantism of the Australian Diprotodon Owen 1838 (Marsupialia, Diprotodontoidea) through the Pleistocene" (in en). Journal of Quaternary Science 24 (8): 1029–1038. doi:10.1002/jqs.1285. Bibcode: 2009JQS....24.1029P.
- ↑ Montanari, Shaena; Louys, Julien; Price, Gilbert J. (12 June 2013). Curnoe, Darren. ed. "Pliocene Paleoenvironments of Southeastern Queensland, Australia Inferred from Stable Isotopes of Marsupial Tooth Enamel" (in en). PLoS ONE 8 (6). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0066221. ISSN 1932-6203. PMID 23776636. Bibcode: 2013PLoSO...866221M.
- "Australia's Lost World: Prehistoric Animals of Riversleigh" by Michael Archer, Suzanne J. Hand, and Henk Godthelp
- "Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution" by John A. Long, Michael Archer, Timothy Flannery, and Suzanne Hand
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