Dasyurus Geoffroy 1796 (quoll)

Mammalia - Dasyuromorphia - Dasyuridae

Parent taxon: Dasyurini according to C. Krajewski et al. 1992

See also Gray 1825, Springer et al. 1994 and Wilson and Reeder 2005

Sister taxa: Dasycercus, Dasyuroides, Myoictis, Sarcophilus

Subtaxa: Dasyurus albopunctatus Dasyurus dunmalli Dasyurus geoffroii Dasyurus hallucatus Dasyurus maculatus Dasyurus spartacus Dasyurus viverrinus

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Ecology: scansorial insectivore-carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (34 collections)

• Pliocene to Holocene of Australia (1)

• Pliocene of Australia (4)

Total: 39 collections including 51 occurrences

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