Propleopus

Propleopus
Aide à la lecture d'une taxobox Propleopus
 Reconstitution de synthèse d’un Propleopus
Reconstitution de synthèse d’un Propleopus
Classification
Règne Animalia
Embranchement Chordata
Sous-embr. Vertebrata
Classe Mammalia
Ordre Australidelphia
Famille Macropodidae
Genre
Propleopus
Longman, 1924

Propleopus est un genre éteint de marsupial. On connait deux espèces de Propleopus, Propleopus chillagoensis et Propleopus oscillans, datant du Pléistocène. Ce genre était assez proche de l’actuel kangourou-rat musqué (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus) et il est donc probable que les Propleopi ont été omnivores, contrairement à la plupart des autres espèces de kangourous[1].

Notes

Références

  • John A. Long et al.: Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2003, ISBN 0-8018-7223-5.

(en anglais)


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Contenu soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA. Source : Article Propleopus de Wikipédia en français (auteurs)

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Regardez d'autres dictionnaires:

  • Propleopus — Lebendrekonstruktion von Propleopus Zeitraum Pliozän bis Pleistozän 4,3 Mio. Jahre bis 55.000 Jahre Fundorte Australien …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Проплеопус — ? † Проплеопус Проплеопус (реконструкция) …   Википедия

  • Macropod — Taxobox name = MacropodsMSW3 Groves|pages=58 70] fossil range=Late Oligocene Recent image width = 200px image caption = Red necked Wallaby regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia infraclassis = Marsupialia ordo = Diprotodontia… …   Wikipedia

  • Australian megafauna — is a term used to describe a number of comparatively large animal species in Australia, often defined as species with body mass estimates of greater than 30 kilograms, or equal to or greater than 30% greater body mass than their closest living… …   Wikipedia

  • List of prehistoric mammals — This is a list of articles dealing with animals that lived and went extinct during prehistoric times. It does not include species that existed then that still continue to exist into recorded history.ubclass PrototheriaInfraclass Yinotheria*Family …   Wikipedia

  • Hypsiprymnodontidae — Taxobox name = Hypsiprymnodontidae fossil range=Oligocene Pleistocene regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia infraclassis = Marsupialia ordo = Diprotodontia subordo = Macropodiformes familia = Hypsiprymnodontidae familia authority …   Wikipedia

  • Macropodiformes — Taxobox name = Macropodiformes fossil range=Late Oligocene Recent [http://paleodb.org/cgi bin/bridge.pl?action=checkTaxonInfo taxon no=40140 is real user=1 The Paleobiology Database ] ] image width = 200px image caption = Red necked Wallaby… …   Wikipedia

  • List of Australian megafauna — Megafauna are large animals (for definitions, see the Megafauna page). Extant and recently extinct (in the Pleistocene) megafauna of Australia are listed here.*Antilopine Kangaroo ( Marcopus antilopinus ) *Australian Pelican ( Pelecanus… …   Wikipedia

  • Quaternary extinction event — Late Pleistocene landscape of northern Eurasia The Quaternary period saw the extinctions of numerous predominantly larger, especially megafaunal, species, many of which occurred during the transition from the Pleistocene to the Holocene epoch.… …   Wikipedia

  • Fauna Australiens — Der Koala ist eines der Charaktertiere Australiens und kommt nur dort vor …   Deutsch Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”