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Trichosurus (brushtail possum)
Taxonomy
Trichosurus was named by Lesson (1828). It is extant.
It was assigned to Phalangerinae by Pocock (1921); to Trichosurini by Flannery et al. (1987); and to Phalangeridae by Springer et al. (1994) and McKenna and Bell (1997).
It was assigned to Phalangerinae by Pocock (1921); to Trichosurini by Flannery et al. (1987); and to Phalangeridae by Springer et al. (1994) and McKenna and Bell (1997).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1828 | Trichosurus Lesson |
| 1921 | Trichosurus Pocock p. 593 |
| 1987 | Trichosurus Flannery et al. |
| 1994 | Trichosurus Springer et al. p. 86 |
| 1997 | Trichosurus McKenna and Bell |
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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. Trichosurus Lesson 1828 [brushtail possum]
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†Trichosurus dicksoni Flannery and Archer 1987
†Trichosurus hamiltonensis Flannery et al. 1987
Trichosurus vulpecula Kerr 1792 [common brushtail possum]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Clemens 1979, Nowak 1991, Hopson 1973, Lillegraven 1979, Bassarova et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Aquitanian to the top of the Holocene or 23.03000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 15.97 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 15.97 Ma
Collections (25 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Aquitanian - Burdigalian | Australia (Queensland) | Trichosurus sp. (183096) | |
| Langhian - Serravallian | Australia (Queensland) | Trichosurus dicksoni (28420) | |
| Tortonian | Australia (Queensland) | Trichosurus sp. (68775) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene | Australia (Victoria) | Trichosurus hamiltonensis (135705) | |
| Zanclean | Australia (Victoria) | Trichosurus hamiltonensis (70556) Trichosurus sp. (70558) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Australia ( New South Wales) | Trichosurus sp. (182621) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (Victoria) | Trichosurus sp. (136221) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (Queensland) | Trichosurus sp. (138403) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (Western Australia) | Trichosurus rulpecula (182924) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Trichosurus sp., Trichosurus vulpecula (96015) Trichosurus vulpecula (95899 96019) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Trichosurus vulpecula (28298 136430) | |
| 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 (South Australia) | Trichosurus vulpecula (136072 181314) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (Victoria) | Trichosurus vulpecula (182939) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Australia (South Australia) | Trichosurus vulpecula (136172 183085) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Queensland) | Trichosurus vulpecula (21688) |