Biology:Euryzygoma
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Short description: Extinct genus of marsupials
| Euryzygoma | |
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| Life reconstruction of Euryzygoma dunense | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | †Diprotodontidae |
| Genus: | †Euryzygoma Longman, 1921 |
| Species: | †E. dunense
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| Binomial name | |
| †Euryzygoma dunense De Vis, 1888
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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 diprotodonts 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]
References
- ↑ "Fossilworks: Euryzygoma". http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=40188.
- ↑ "Anaspides.net". http://www.anaspides.net/earth_life_sciences/megafauna_extinction.html.
- ↑ MacPhee, R. D. E. (1999-06-30) (in en). Extinctions in Near Time. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9780306460920. https://books.google.com/books?id=UZLuF1YXYTcC&dq=Euryzygoma&pg=PA251.
- ↑ Long, John A.; Archer, Michael (2002-01-01) (in en). Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution. UNSW Press. ISBN 9780868404356. 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.
- "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
Wikidata ☰ Q11741 entry
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