Congruus

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Congruus
Temporal range: Late Pleistocene
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Congruus kitcheneri skull.jpg
Skull of Congruus kitcheneri
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Macropodidae
Subfamily: Macropodinae
Genus:† Congruus
McNamara, 1994
Species
  • Congruus congruus McNamara, 1994 (type)
  • Congruus kitcheneri (Flannery. 1989)

Congruus is an extinct genus of macropod known from the Late Pleistocene of Australia. There are two species, Congruus kitcheneri, which was originally described as a species of Wallabia, [1] [2] and Congruus congruus. [3] Specimens are known from Mammoth Cave, Western Australia, the Thylacoleo Caves (Nullarbor Plain) and the Naracoorte caves in South Australia. [2] [3] Potential material is also known from Eastern Australia. [2] The morphology of the skull and limbs suggests that they were semi-arboreal browsers, moving slowly through trees, though they were larger than and not as specialised for climbing as living tree kangaroos. [2] They are thought to be members of the tribe Macropodini, and close relatives of the extinct genus Protemnodon . [4]

References

  1. ↑ Flannery TF. 1989A new species of Wallabia (Macropodinae: Marsupialia) from Pleistocene deposits in Mammoth Cave, southwestern Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 14, 299-307.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Warburton, Natalie M.; Prideaux, Gavin J. (March 2021). "The skeleton of Congruus kitcheneri, a semiarboreal kangaroo from the Pleistocene of southern Australia". Royal Society Open Science. 8 (3): rsos.202216, 202216. doi:10.1098/rsos.202216. ISSN   2054-5703. PMC   8074921 . PMID   33959368.
  3. 1 2 McNamara JA. 1994 A new fossil wallaby (Marsupialia: Macropodidae) from the south east of South Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 27, 111-115.
  4. ↑ Kerr, Isaac A. R.; Prideaux, Gavin J. (2022-07-03). "A new genus of kangaroo (Marsupialia, Macropodidae) from the late Pleistocene of Papua New Guinea" . Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 146 (2): 295–318. doi:10.1080/03721426.2022.2086518. ISSN   0372-1426. S2CID   250189771.
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