Euryzygoma
| Euryzygoma Temporal range: Pliocene to Pleistocene
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| Genus: | †Euryzygoma
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| Species: | †E. dunense Longman, 1921
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Euryzygoma is an extinct genus of marsupial which inhabited humid eucalyptus forests in Queensland and New South Wales from the Pliocene to the Late Pleistocene of Australia.[1][2] Fossils assigned to Euryzygoma suggest that the last species went extinct in the Quaternary extinction event.[3] Euryzygoma is believed to have weighed around 500 kg,[4] and differed from other diprotodonts in having unusual, flaring cheekbones that may have been used either for storing food or for sexual display.[5]
References
- ^ "Fossilworks: Euryzygoma". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
- ^ "Anaspides.net". www.anaspides.net. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
- ^ "Megafauna". austhrutime.com. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
- ^ MacPhee, R. D. E. (1999-06-30). Extinctions in Near Time. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9780306460920.
- ^ 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.
- "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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