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Phascolonus
Taxonomy
Phascolonus was named by Owen (1872). It is not extant.
It was assigned to Phascolomyidae by Lydekker (1894), Pocock (1921); and to Vombatidae by Wells (1989), McKenna and Bell (1997), Louys (2015), Beck et al. (2020).
It was assigned to Phascolomyidae by Lydekker (1894), Pocock (1921); and to Vombatidae by Wells (1989), McKenna and Bell (1997), Louys (2015), Beck et al. (2020).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1872 | Phascolonus Owen |
| 1894 | Phascolonus Lydekker p. 265 |
| 1921 | Phascolonus Pocock p. 606 |
| 1989 | Phascolonus Wells |
| 1997 | Phascolonus McKenna and Bell |
| 2015 | Phascolonus Louys |
| 2020 | Phascolonus Beck et al. |
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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. †Phascolonus Owen 1872
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†Phascolonus gigas Owen 1859
†Phascolonus lemleyi Archer 1976
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Clemens 1979, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Hopson 1973, Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Zanclean to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 5.33300 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (11 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zanclean | Australia (Queensland) | P. lemleyi (182159) | |
| Pliocene | Australia (Queensland) | P. gigas, Ramsayia lemleyi (182916) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | Australia (Victoria) | P. sp. (182150) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene | Australia (New South Wales) | P. magnus (182843) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | P. gigas (135981) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (New South Wales) | P. gigas (181761) P. sp. (182108) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (Queensland) | P. gigas (136730) P. sp. (194845) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (Queensland) | P. gigas (210195) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | P. sp. (182002) |