Superfamily Macropodoidea Gray 1821 (diprotodont marsupial)

Mammalia - Diprotodontia

Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review 15:296-310

Parent taxon: Phalangerida according to M. Munemasa et al. 2006

See also Flannery and Archer 1987

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Balbaridae Balbarinae Bulungamayinae Hypsiprymnodontidae Ngamaroo Propleopinae Sthenurinae

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Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (182 collections)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Australia (6)

• Pliocene of Australia (15)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)

• Miocene of Australia (20)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1)

• Oligocene of Australia (7)

Total: 232 collections including 442 occurrences

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