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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...
- worker's identification of the taxon as 'Thomson's unnamed Potoroid' or 'Unnamed potoroid' (Baynes 1987). The epithet pusilla is derived from Latin, a...
- The broad-faced potoroo (Potorous platyops) is an extinct potoroid marsupial that was found in southwestern Australia. The first specimen was collected...
- 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...
-   Extinct in the wild (EW): 2 species   Critically endangered (CR): 203 species   Endangered (EN): 505 species   Vulnerable (VU): 536 species   Near threatened...
- Bettongia moyesi is a fossil species of potoroid marsupial. The description of fossil specimens obtained at the Riversleigh World Heritage Area was published...
- The desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris), also called the buff-nosed rat-kangaroo, plains rat-kangaroo or oola****a, is an extinct small hopping...
- 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...
- expedition. In the late Oligocene, fossils of paleopotoroines and potoroines (potoroid ancestors) appeared. During the Oligocene, ice buildup on Antarctica resulted...
- tree-kangaroo, with estimated body m****es of 35–47 kg (77–104 lb). The largest potoroid ever recorded was Borungaboodie, which was nearly 30% bigger than the largest...