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Phascolomyidae

Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Phascolomyidae

Taxonomy
Phascolomidae was named by Gray (1821). It is extant.

It was corrected as Phascolomyidae by Bonaparte (1850), Cope (1889), Flower and Lydekker (1891), Lydekker (1894), Gadow (1898) and Pocock (1921); it was synonymized subjectively with Vombatidae by McKenna and Bell (1997).

It was assigned to Glires by Gray (1821); to Marsupialia by Bonaparte (1850); to Marsupialia by Lydekker (1894); to Diprotodontia by Cope (1889), Flower and Lydekker (1891) and Gadow (1898); and to Phascolomyoidea by Pocock (1921).

Subtaxa
Sceparnodon

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1821Phascolomidae Gray p. 309
1850Phascolomyidae Bonaparte p. 1
1889Phascolomyidae Cope p. 876
1891Phascolomyidae Flower and Lydekker p. 89
1894Phascolomyidae Lydekker p. 265
1898Phascolomyidae Gadow p. 41
1921Phascolomyidae Pocock p. 607

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
RankNameAuthor
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
subclassMetatheria()
—Marsupialiformes
—Marsupialia()
—AustralidelphiaSzalay 1982
orderDiprotodontiaOwen 1866
superfamilyPhascolomyoidea
familyPhascolomyidae()
familyPhascolomyidae()

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.

Fm. Phascolomyidae Gray 1821
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G. †Sceparnodon Owen 1884
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†Sceparnodon ramsayi Owen 1884
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: scansorialf
Diet: omnivoref
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2005-09-07 09:16:13
Modified: 2011-04-27 20:22:07
Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Hopson 1973, Lillegraven 1979, Clemens 1979

Age range: Late/Upper Pleistocene or 0.12900 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Australia (South Australia) Phascolomidae indet. (182002)