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Macropodinae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	55037	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=55037

Rank

subfamily (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Diprotodontia : Macropodidae : Macropodinae

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
-	Theriamorpha
-	Theriiformes
-	Trechnotheria	McKenna 1975
-	Cladotheria	McKenna 1975
-	Boreosphenida
subclass	Theria	Parker and Haswell 1897
subclass	Metatheria
-	Marsupialia
-	Australidelphia	Szalay 1982
order	Diprotodontia	Owen 1866
family	Macropodidae	Gray 1821
subfamily	Macropodinae	Gray 1821

Common Name

kangaroo

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Macropodinae	subfamily	belongs to Macropodidae	stated with evidence	Pocock, 1921
Macropodinae	subfamily	belongs to Macropodidae	stated without evidence	Flannery, 1989
Macropodinae	subfamily	belongs to Macropodidae	stated with evidence	Burk et al., 1998
Macropodinae	subfamily	belongs to Macropodidae	stated without evidence	Dawson et al., 1999
Macropodinae	subfamily	belongs to Macropodidae	stated with evidence	Prideaux, 2004
Macropodinae	subfamily	belongs to Macropodidae	stated without evidence	Prideaux and Warburton, 2008

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

43 (46%)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 3.6 Ma
Neogene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Mammalia)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

herbivore (based on Macropodidae)

Reproduction

viviparous (based on Theria)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. E. Gray. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review 15:296-310

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Dendrolagini ✝ tribe	listed (PBDB)
Baringa ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Bohra ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	5.33 Ma Miocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Congruus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Dendrolagus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Tree Kangaroo	2	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Dorcopsis genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	New Guinea Forest Wallaby	4	7.25 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Dorcopsulus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Kurrabi ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	5.33 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Lagorchestes genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Hare-wallaby	11	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Macropus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		183	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Onychogalea genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Nail-tailed Wallaby	4	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Peradorcas genus	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Prionotemnus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	5.33 Ma Miocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Protemnodon ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		54	23.0 Ma Miocene	0.13 Ma Pleistocene
Setonix genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Quokka	1	0.01 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Silvaroo ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	5.33 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Thylogale genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Pademelon	10	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Wallabia genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Swamp Wallaby	12	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Watutia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	3.60 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1821	Macropodinae Gray
1845	Macropus affinis Owen
1874	Osphranter gouldi Owen
1895	Halmaturus odin De Vis
1921	Macropodinae Pocock p. 607
1975	Macropus piltonensis Bartholomai
1985	Macropodinae Dawson and Flannery p. 474

Year	Name and Author
1989	Macropodinae Flannery p. 300
1989	Macropodinae Flannery et al.
1998	Macropodinae Burk et al. p. 457
1999	Macropodinae Dawson et al. p. 276
2004	Macropodinae Prideaux
2008	Macropodinae Prideaux and Warburton p. 464

References

Gray J. E. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals, The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review 15, 296-310

Pocock R. I. (1921) The External Characters of the Koala (Phascolarctos) and some related Marsupials, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 91 3, 591-607 doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1921.tb03283.x

Dawson L., Flannery T. (1985) Taxonomic and phylogenetic status of living and fossil kangaroos and wallabies of the genus Macropus Shaw (Macropodidae: Marsupialia), with a new subgeneric name for the larger wallabies, Australian Journal of Zoology 33 4, 473-498

Flannery T. F. (1989) A new species of Wallabia (Macropodinae: Marsupialia) from Pleistocene deposits in Mammoth Cave, southwestern Western Australia, Records of the Western Australian Museum 14, 299-307

Flannery T. F., Hoch E., et al (1989) Macropodines from the Pliocene Otibanda Formation, Papua New Guinea, Alcheringa 13 1-2, 145-152

Burk A., Westerman M., et al (1998) The phylogenetic position of the musky rat-kangaroo and the evolution of bipedal hopping in kangaroos (Macropodidae: Diprotodontia), Systematic Biology 47 3, 457-474

Dawson L., Muirhead J., et al (1999) The Big Sink local fauna; a lower Pliocene mammalian fauna from the Wellington Caves complex, Wellington, New South Wales, Records of the Western Australian Museum 57, 265-290

Prideaux G. J. (2004) Systematics and evolution of the sthenurine kangaroos, UC Publications in Geological Sciences, University of California Press 146, 1-623

Prideaux G. J., Warburton N. M. (2008) A new Pleistocene tree-kangaroo (Diprotodontia: Macropodidae) from the Nullarbor Plain of southcentral Australia, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 2, 463-478 doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2008)28[463:ANPTDM]2.0.CO;2

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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