Lagorchestes
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| Lagorchestes[1] Temporal range: Recent[2] |
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| Eastern hare-wallaby | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Suborder: | Macropodiformes |
| Family: | Macropodidae |
| Subfamily: | Macropodinae |
| Genus: | Lagorchestes Gould, 1841 |
| Type species | |
| Macropus leporides |
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Lagorchestes is a genus containing all but one of the species referred to as hare-wallabies. It has four species, two of which are extinct:
- †Lake Mackay hare-wallaby, Lagorchestes asomatus (extinct)
- Spectacled hare-wallaby, Lagorchestes conspicillatus
- Rufous hare-wallaby, Lagorchestes hirsutus
- †Eastern hare-wallaby, Lagorchestes leporides (extinct)
The oldest known fossil of Lagorchestes is an 11,000-year-old one of the extant spectacled hare-wallaby.[2]
References [edit]
- ^ Groves, C. P. (2005). In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 62–63. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
- ^ a b The Paleobiology Database
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