†subfamily Sthenurinae Glauert 1926 (short-faced kangaroo)

Mammalia - Diprotodontia

Parent taxon: Macropodoidea according to G. J. Prideaux 2004

See also Flannery and Archer 1984 and Wilson and Reeder 2005

Sister taxa: Balbaridae, Balbarinae, Bulungamayinae, Hypsiprymnodontidae, Ngamaroo, Propleopinae

Subtaxa: Hadronomas Lagostrophus Metasthenurus Procoptodon Simosthenurini Sthenurus Troposodon

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Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (183 collections)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Australia (6)

• Pliocene of Australia (12)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)

• Miocene of Australia (4)

Total: 206 collections including 391 occurrences

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