Diprotodon - Wikipedia
Diprotodon (Ancient Greek: "two protruding front teeth") is an extinct genus of marsupial from the Pleistocene of Australia containing one species, D. optatum. The earliest finds date to 1.77 million to 780,000 years ago but most specimens are dated to after 110,000 years ago.
Diprotodon optatum - The Australian Museum
The massive Diprotodon optatum, from the Pleistocene of Australia, was the largest marsupial known and the last of the extinct, herbivorous diprotodontids. Diprotodon was the first fossil mammal named from Australia (Owen 1838) and one of the most well known of the megafauna.
Diprotodon | Largest Known Fossil Marsupials, Characteristics ...
Diprotodon, extinct genus of marsupial classified in the suborder Vombatiformes and considered to be the largest known group of marsupial mammals. Diprotodon lived during the Pleistocene Epoch (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago) in Australia and …
10 Facts About Diprotodon, the Giant Wombat - ThoughtCo
2019年1月21日 · Since it disappeared about 50,000 years ago, it seems like an open-and-shut case that Diprotodon was hunted to extinction by early humans. However, that's far from the accepted view among paleontologists, who also suggest climate change and/or deforestation as the cause of the giant wombat's demise. Most likely, it was a combination of all ...
Naracoorte megafauna succumbed to both humans and …
2021年12月22日 · Researchers now believe megafauna in the Naracoorte region were more vulnerable to changes in food supply than the surviving species, which could have led to their extinction.
Diprotodontidae - Wikipedia
Diprotodontidae is an extinct family of large herbivorous marsupials, endemic to Australia and New Guinea during the Oligocene through Pleistocene periods from 28.4 million to 40,000 years ago. [1]
Ancient skeletons of largest-ever marsupial unearthed in Australia
2023年10月25日 · A "unique" fossil site in Western Australia is revealing the elusive remains of the world's largest ever marsupial, a museum has announced. The skeletons belong to Diprotodon, which is related to...
Scientists measure the sands of time to age Shirley the diprotodon ...
2024年5月8日 · Just over a decade ago, an outback cattle station worker in the NT stumbled across a rare diprotodon fossil sticking out of the red soil. Now fondly known as Shirley, scientists have discovered ...
Diprotodon: The Massive Marsupial that Roamed Australia 5.3 …
2018年9月17日 · The diprotodon is an animal that roamed Australia 5.3 million years ago. It was the largest known marsupial to have ever existed; imagine a wombat, but the size of a hippopotamus and weighing nearly two tons.
Diprotodon optatum Owen, 1838a:362-363, xix - Recently Extinct …
2021年8月23日 · Australia's largest marsupial, Diprotodon: its ancestry, palaeobiology and extinction. Pp. 995–97 in Archer, M. and Clayton, G. (eds) Vertebrate zoogeography and evolution in Australasia (Animals in space and time).