Nototherium

Nototherium ("Southern Beast") is an extinct genus of diprotodontid marsupial from Australia and New Guinea. This mammal had hypsodont molars and weighed around 500kg.[1] It was a relative of the larger Diprotodon and a distant kin to modern wombats.

Nototherium
Temporal range:
Fossil skull
Life reconstruction of Nototherium mitcheli
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: †Diprotodontidae
Genus: †Nototherium
Owen, 1845
Type species
Nototherium inerme
Owen, 1845
Species

See text

Species
  • Nototherium inerme Owen, 1845
  • Nototherium watutense Anderson, 1937 (formerly considered to be a member of Kolopsis) Plio-Pleistocene, New Guinea.[2]
  • Nototherium mitchelli Owen, 1845 Pleistocene, Australia (possibly a junior synonym of N. inerme)[2]

References
  1. Ross D.E. MacPhee, Hans-Dieter Sues, 1999, Extinctions in Near Time, p.251, Springer Science & Business Media
  2. Mackness, Brian (March 2013). "On the identity of ' Kolopsis ' watutense (Anderson, 1937) (Diprotodontidae, Marsupialia) and the New Guinean diprotodontid radiation". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 37 (1): 39–47. doi:10.1080/03115518.2012.701488. ISSN 0311-5518. S2CID 85153904.
  • Wildlife of Gondwana: Dinosaurs and Other Vertebrates from the Ancient Supercontinent (Life of the Past) by Pat Vickers Rich, Thomas Hewitt Rich, Francesco Coffa, and Steven Morton
  • Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution by John A. Long, Michael Archer, Timothy Flannery, and Suzanne Hand


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.