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Wallabia (swamp wallaby)
Taxonomy
Wallabia was named by Trouessart (1905). It is extant.
It was assigned to Macropodidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Macropodinae by Flannery (1989), Burk et al. (1998).
It was assigned to Macropodidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Macropodinae by Flannery (1989), Burk et al. (1998).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1905 | Wallabia Trouessart |
| 1989 | Wallabia Flannery p. 300 |
| 1997 | Wallabia McKenna and Bell |
| 1998 | Wallabia 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. Wallabia Trouessart 1905 [swamp wallaby]
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Wallabia bicolor Desmarest 1804 [swamp wallaby]
†Wallabia kitcheneri Flannery 1989
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Nowak 1991, Hopson 1973, Carroll 1988, Bassarova et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Pliocene to the top of the Holocene or 3.60000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 2.58 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 2.58 Ma
Collections (12 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zanclean - Piacenzian | Australia (Victoria) | Wallabia bicolor (70572) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | Australia (Victoria) | Wallabia sp., Wallabia bicolor (182150) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (Western Australia) | Wallabia kitcheneri (96022) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Wallabia bicolor (28298 136073 136159 136430) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Wallabia bicolor (136075) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Wallabia bicolour (182957) | |
| Holocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Wallabia bicolor (235090) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Victoria) | Wallabia sp. (182902) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Queensland) | Wallabia bicolor (21688) |