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Vombatus (common wombat)
Taxonomy
Vombatus was named by Saint-Hillaire (1803). It is extant.
It was assigned to Vombatidae by Marshall (1974), Wells (1989), Springer et al. (1994), McKenna and Bell (1997), Louys (2015) and Beck et al. (2020).
It was assigned to Vombatidae by Marshall (1974), Wells (1989), Springer et al. (1994), McKenna and Bell (1997), Louys (2015) and Beck et al. (2020).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1803 | Vombatus Saint-Hillaire |
| 1810 | Opossum Perry |
| 1974 | Vombatus Marshall p. 66 |
| 1989 | Vombatus Wells |
| 1994 | Vombatus Springer et al. p. 86 |
| 1997 | Vombatus McKenna and Bell |
| 2015 | Vombatus Louys |
| 2020 | Vombatus Beck et al. |
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G. Vombatus Saint-Hillaire 1803 [common wombat]
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†Vombatus hacketti Glauert 1910
†Vombatus mitchelli Owen 1838
Vombatus ursinus Shaw 1800 [common wombat]
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Invalid names: Opossum hirsutum Perry 1810 [synonym], Phascolomys mitchelli Owen 1838 [synonym], Phascolomys platyrhinus Owen 1853 [synonym], Phascolomys vombatus Leach 1815 [synonym]
Invalid names: Opossum Perry 1810 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Clemens 1979, Hopson 1973, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Bassarova et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Zanclean to the top of the Holocene or 5.33300 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 3.6 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 3.6 Ma
Collections (22 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Miocene - Holocene | Australia (Victoria) | Vombatus ursinus (182835) | |
| Zanclean | Australia (Victoria) | Vombatus sp. (70558) | |
| Pliocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Vombatus sp., Vombatus mitchelli (182916) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Vombatus indet. (182211 182213) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Vombatus sp. (96015) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (Victoria) | Vombatus ursinus (136221) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Vombatus sp. (135983) Vombatus ursinus (28298 136159 136430) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (Queensland) | Vombatus ursinus (136730) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Vombatus ursinus (136075) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (late glacial) | Australia (Victoria) | Vombatus sp. (92837) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (Victoria) | Vombatus ursinus (182939 197269) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Vombatus urinus (182957) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (Tasmania) | Vombatus ursinus (182959) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Australia (South Australia) | Vombatus ursinus (136172 183085) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Western Australia) | Vombatus sp. (183094) | |
| Holocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Vombatus ursinus (235090) |