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Bettongia penicillata (brush-tailed bettong)
Taxonomy
Bettongia penicillata was named by Gray (1837). It is extant.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1837 | Bettongia penicillata Gray |
| 1984 | Bettongia penicillata Lundelius and Turnbull p. 48 |
| 1998 | Bettongia penicillata Burk et al. p. 460 |
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Bettongia penicillata Gray 1837 [brush-tailed bettong]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Bassarova et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009, Clemens 1979, Lillegraven 1979, Hopson 1973 | |||||
Age range: base of the Middle Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.77400 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (13 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pleistocene | Australia (Western Australia) | Bettongia penicillata (136225 182925) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Bettongia penicillata (28298 136073 136076) | |
| Quaternary | Australia (New South Wales) | Bettongia penicillata (181307) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Bettongia penicillata (28364) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Bettongia penicillata (136075 183263) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Bettongia penicillata (181314) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Australia (Western Australia) | Bettongia penicillata (182819) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Western Australia) | Bettongia penicillata (183094) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Queensland) | Bettongia penicillata (21688) |