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Macropus (Macropus) giganteus (eastern grey kangaroo)
Taxonomy
Macropus giganteus was named by Shaw (1790). It is extant. It is the type species of Macropus, Macropus (Macropus).
It was recombined as Macropus (Macropus) giganteus by Dawson and Flannery (1985).
It was recombined as Macropus (Macropus) giganteus by Dawson and Flannery (1985).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1790 | Macropus giganteus Shaw |
| 1838 | Macropus titan Owen |
| 1894 | Macropus titan Lydekker p. 254 |
| 1895 | Macropus faunus De Vis |
| 1895 | Macropus magister De Vis |
| 1974 | Macropus titan Marshall p. 66 |
| 1985 | Macropus (Macropus) giganteus Dawson and Flannery p. 481 |
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Macropus (Macropus) giganteus Shaw 1790 [eastern grey kangaroo]
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Invalid names: Macropus faunus De Vis 1895 [synonym], Macropus magister De Vis 1895 [synonym], Macropus titan Owen 1838 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1991, Hopson 1973, Hendy et al. 2009, Bassarova et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pliocene to the top of the Holocene or 3.60000 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (21 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Pliocene | Australia (Victoria) | Macropus giganteus (182150) | |
| Piacenzian | Australia (Victoria) | Macropus giganteus (70578) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Australia ( New South Wales) | Macropus giganteus (182621) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Macropus titan (96015 181761) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (Victoria) | Macropus giganteus (136221) Macropus titan (70580) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Macropus giganteus (136159 136430) Macropus giganteus, Macropus titan (136073) | |
| Quaternary | Australia (New South Wales) | Macropus titan (181307) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Australia (Queensland) | Macropus titan (183095) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (Queensland) | Macropus giganteus, Macropus titan (136730) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Macropus giganteus (136075) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (Victoria) | Macropus titan (197269) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (late glacial) | Australia (Victoria) | Macropus titan (92836 92837) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (Queensland) | Macropus titan (95863) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Macropus giganteus (136072) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Australia (South Australia) | Macropus giganteus (136172) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Queensland) | Macropus giganteus (21688) |