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Dendrolagus (tree kangaroo)
Taxonomy
Dendrolagus was named by Müller (1840). It is extant.
It was assigned to Macropodidae by Springer et al. (1994) and McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Macropodinae by Pocock (1921), Flannery and Archer (1984), Burk et al. (1998) and Wilson and Reeder (2005).
It was assigned to Macropodidae by Springer et al. (1994) and McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Macropodinae by Pocock (1921), Flannery and Archer (1984), Burk et al. (1998) and Wilson and Reeder (2005).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1840 | Dendrolagus Müller |
| 1921 | Dendrolagus Pocock p. 593 |
| 1984 | Dendrolagus Flannery and Archer |
| 1994 | Dendrolagus Springer et al. p. 86 |
| 1997 | Dendrolagus McKenna and Bell |
| 1998 | Dendrolagus Burk et al. p. 466 |
| 2005 | Dendrolagus Wilson and Reeder |
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G. Dendrolagus Müller 1840 [tree kangaroo]
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Dendrolagus bennettianus De Vis 1886 [Bennetts tree-kangaroo]
Dendrolagus dorianus Ramsay 1884 [Doria's tree kangaroo]
Dendrolagus goodfellowi Thomas 1908 [Goodfellow's tree-kangaroo]
Dendrolagus lumholtzi Collett 1884 [Lumholtz's tree kangaroo]
Dendrolagus matschiei Forster and Rothschild 1907 [Huon tree-kangaroo]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Nowak 1991, Hopson 1973, Lillegraven 1979, Bassarova et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Zanclean to the top of the Calabrian or 5.33300 to 0.77400 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 3.6 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 3.6 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Zanclean | Australia (Victoria) | Dendrolagus sp. (70556) | |
| Piacenzian - Calabrian | Australia (Victoria) | Dendrolagus sp. (70577) |