Nototherium Owen 1845 (diprotodont marsupial)

Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Diprotodontidae

Parent taxon: Diprotodontidae according to R. I. Pocock 1921

See also Lydekker 1894 and McKenna and Bell 1997

Sister taxa: Bematherium, Brachalletes, Chronozoon, Diprotodon, Diprotodontinae, Euowenia, Euryzygoma, Koalemus, Kolopsis, Kolopsoides, Meniscolophus, Plaisiodon, Pyramios, Raemeotherium, Sthenmerus, Zygomaturinae

Subtaxa: Nototherium dunense Nototherium mitchelli Nototherium tasmanicus Nototherium victoriae Nototherium watutense

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Type: Nototherium inerme

Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections), Papua New Guinea (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Papua New Guinea (1)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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