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Aepyprymnus (rufous rat-kangaroo)
Taxonomy
Aepyprymnus was named by Garrod (1875). It is extant. Its type is Bettongia rufescens.
It was assigned to Bettongini by Flannery and Archer (1987); to Macropodidae by Springer et al. (1994) and McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Potoroinae by Burk et al. (1998).
It was assigned to Bettongini by Flannery and Archer (1987); to Macropodidae by Springer et al. (1994) and McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Potoroinae by Burk et al. (1998).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1875 | Aepyprymnus Garrod |
| 1987 | Aepyprymnus Flannery and Archer |
| 1994 | Aepyprymnus Springer et al. p. 86 |
| 1997 | Aepyprymnus McKenna and Bell |
| 1998 | Aepyprymnus Burk et al. p. 466 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Aepyprymnus Garrod 1875 [rufous rat-kangaroo]
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Aepyprymnus rufescens Gray 1837 [rufous rat-kangaroo]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Hopson 1973, Bassarova et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Clemens 1979, Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Miocene to the top of the Holocene or 23.03000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 2.588 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 2.588 Ma
Collections (11 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Miocene - Pliocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Aepyprymnus rufescenes (183097) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Aepyprymnus indet. (182213) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Aepyprymnus rufescens (95899 96015 96019) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Aepyprymnus rufescens (28298 136159) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Australia (Queensland) | Aepyprymnus rufescens (183095) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (Queensland) | Aepyprymnus rufescens (136730) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (late glacial) | Australia (Victoria) | Aepyprymnus rufescens (92837) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Queensland) | Aepyprymnus rufescens (21688) |