Macropus (Macropus)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- kangarooPBDB
- Sits inside
- MacropusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Macropodidae
- Life habit
- saltatorialPBDB, for Macropus
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.
40 occurrences of Macropus (Macropus) on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
40 occurrences- Pliocene10%
- Pleistocene85%
- Holocene5%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
2 formations
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The named rock units Macropus (Macropus) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 37 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Macropus (Macropus) and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Macropus (Macropus) and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
295 taxa- Thylacinus cynocephalus15 sites
- Thylacoleo carnifex14 sites
- Pseudomys12 sites
- Dasyurus viverrinus11 sites
- Isoodon obesulus10 sites
- Macropus rufogriseus10 sites
- Mastacomys10 sites
- Protemnodon brehus10 sites
- Bettongia9 sites
- Perameles gunnii9 sites
- Protemnodon anak9 sites
- Rattus9 sites
- Antechinus flavipes8 sites
- Bettongia lesueur8 sites
- Bettongia penicillata8 sites
- Protemnodon8 sites
- Pseudocheirus peregrinus8 sites
- Simosthenurus occidentalis8 sites
- Sthenurus8 sites
- Trichosurus vulpecula8 sites
- Cercartetus nanus7 sites
- Petaurus breviceps7 sites
- Potorous platyops7 sites
- Procoptodon gilli7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Macropus (Macropus), and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
21 references- Pleistocene fossil vertebrate sites of the South East region of South Australia5
- Pleistocene fossil vertebrate sites of the South East region of South Australia II4
- Mesozoic to early Quaternary mammal faunas of Victoria, South-East Australia4
- Systematics and evolution of the sthenurine kangaroos3
- Fossiliferous deposits at Lake Tandou, New South Wales, Australia3
- Investigating human and megafauna co-occurrence in Australian prehistory: Mode and causality in fossil accumulations at Cuddie Springs2
- The late Quaternary sediments and fossil vertebrate fauna from Cathedral Cave, Wellington Caves, New South Wales2
- Lancefield swamp and the extinction of the Australian megafauna2
- The fossil vertebrate fauna from Pleistocene deposits at Cement Mills, Gore, southern Queensland2
- Late Pleistocene mammals from the "Keilor cranium site," southern Victoria, Australia2
- Early Pleistocene mammals from the Nelson Baylocal fauna, Portland, Victoria, Australia1
- Pleistocene Grey Kangaroos from the fossil chamber of Victoria Fossil Cave, Naracoorte, South Australia1
Each of the 40 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 9 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Wesleyan University
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No picture of Macropus (Macropus) was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Macropus (Macropus), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMacropus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shaw 1790