Congruus

Congruus is an extinct genus of macropod known from the Late Pleistocene of Australia. There are two species, Congruus kitcheneri, which was originally described as a species of Wallabia,[1][2] and Congruus congruus.[3] Specimens are known from Mammoth Cave, Western Australia, the Thylacoleo Caves (Nullarbor Plain) and the Naracoorte caves in South Australia.[2][3] Potential material is also known from Eastern Australia.[2] The morphology of the skull and limbs suggests that they were semi-arboreal browsers, moving slowly through trees, though they were larger than and not as specialised for climbing as living tree kangaroos.[2] They are thought to be members of the tribe Macropodini, and close relatives of the extinct genus Protemnodon.[4]

Congruus
Temporal range:
Skull of Congruus kitcheneri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Macropodidae
Subfamily: Macropodinae
Genus: †Congruus
McNamara, 1994
Species
  • Congruus congruus McNamara,1994 (type)
  • Congruus kitcheneri (Flannery. 1989)

References
  1. Flannery TF. 1989A new species of Wallabia (Macropodinae: Marsupialia) from Pleistocene deposits in Mammoth Cave, southwestern Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 14, 299-307.
  2. Warburton, Natalie M.; Prideaux, Gavin J. (March 2021). "The skeleton of Congruus kitcheneri , a semiarboreal kangaroo from the Pleistocene of southern Australia". Royal Society Open Science. 8 (3): rsos.202216, 202216. doi:10.1098/rsos.202216. ISSN 2054-5703. PMC 8074921. PMID 33959368.
  3. McNamara JA. 1994 A new fossil wallaby (Marsupialia: Macropodidae) from the south east of South Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 27, 111-115.
  4. Kerr, Isaac A. R.; Prideaux, Gavin J. (2022-07-03). "A new genus of kangaroo (Marsupialia, Macropodidae) from the late Pleistocene of Papua New Guinea". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 146 (2): 295–318. doi:10.1080/03721426.2022.2086518. ISSN 0372-1426. S2CID 250189771.
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