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Trichosurus vulpecula (common brushtail possum)
Taxonomy
Didelphis vulpecula was named by Kerr (1792). It is extant.
It was recombined as Trichosurus vulpecula by Pocock (1921), Steudel and Beattie (1993), Phillips et al. (2001).
It was recombined as Trichosurus vulpecula by Pocock (1921), Steudel and Beattie (1993), Phillips et al. (2001).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1792 | Didelphis vulpecula Kerr |
| 1921 | Trichosurus vulpecula Pocock p. 595 |
| 1993 | Trichosurus vulpecula Steudel and Beattie |
| 2001 | Trichosurus vulpecula Phillips et al. p. 1538 |
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Trichosurus vulpecula Kerr 1792 [common brushtail possum]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Hopson 1973, Bassarova et al. 2009, Clemens 1979, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.12900 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (16 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Trichosurus vulpecula (28298 136430) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Trichosurus vulpecula (95899 96015 96019) | |
| Quaternary | Australia (New South Wales) | Trichosurus vulpecula (181307) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Trichosurus vulpecula (182920 183262 183263) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (Victoria) | Trichosurus vulpecula (182939) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Trichosurus vulpecula (136072 181314) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Australia (South Australia) | Trichosurus vulpecula (136172 183085) | |
| Holocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Trichosurus vulpecula (235090) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Queensland) | Trichosurus vulpecula (21688) |