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jumping marsupials and
resemble a
large rodent or a very
small wallaby. The
potoroids are
smaller relatives of the
kangaroos and wallabies, and may be ancestral...
- The broad-faced
potoroo (Potorous platyops) is an
extinct potoroid marsupial that was
found in
southwestern Australia. The
first specimen was collected...
- worker's
identification of the
taxon as 'Thomson's
unnamed Potoroid' or 'Unnamed
potoroid' (Baynes 1987). The
epithet pusilla is
derived from Latin, a...
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narrow lower mandible. The
dental formula of the
genus is the same as
other potoroid taxa: I3/1 C1/0 PM1/1 M4/4. Two
premolars in
juveniles are
replaced by...
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Bettongia moyesi is a
fossil species of
potoroid marsupial. The
description of
fossil specimens obtained at the
Riversleigh World Heritage Area was published...
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noticeable musky odour.
Dentition of the
species resembles that of the
extant potoroids, but for that family's
incisor formula of I3/1. The
dental formula of...
- The
desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris), also
called the buff-nosed rat-kangaroo,
plains rat-kangaroo or oola****a, is an
extinct small hopping...
- Gilbert's
potoroo or
ngilkat (Potorous gilbertii) is Australia's most
endangered marsupial, the
rarest marsupial in the world, and one of the world's rarest...
- expedition. In the late Oligocene,
fossils of
paleopotoroines and
potoroines (
potoroid ancestors) appeared.
During the Oligocene, ice
buildup on
Antarctica resulted...
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Extinct in the wild (EW): 2
species Critically endangered (CR): 203
species Endangered (EN): 505
species Vulnerable (VU): 536
species Near threatened...
