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A new fossil kangaroo from the Oligocene-Miocene Etadunna Formation of Ngama Quarry, Lake Palankarinna, South Australia
Benjamin P.
Kear A C,
Neville S.
Pledge B
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Department of Genetics, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria 3086, Australia.
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South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia.
C
Corresponding author. Email: b.kear@latrobe.edu.au
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Australian Journal of Zoology 55(6) 331–339 http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ZO08002
Submitted: 8 January 2008
Accepted: 15 April 2008
Published online: 16 May 2008
Abstract
Mandibular and postcranial remains attributable to a new fossil kangaroo (Macropodoidea) are described from the Oligocene-Miocene Etadunna Formation deposits of Ngama Quarry at Lake Palankarinna in north-eastern South Australia. The taxon is uniquely differentiated by its straight bunolophodont molar row, elongate P3 with distinct labial/lingual cingulids and 12–13 fine (shallowly incised) cuspids/transcristids, molars with a rectangular (length at least 0.3 > width) occlusal outline, hypolophid formed by a buccally directed crest from the entoconid, absence of a discrete M1 protostylid, transversely broad trigonid basin on the M1, M4 not markedly smaller than the anterior molars, distal end of humerus with sub-equally sized capitellum and trochlea (the latter also closely abutting the entepicondyle), and ulna with distinctly sinuous ventral edge. Relationships of the Ngama Quarry kangaroo are poorly resolved because of missing data; however, inclusion within the most comprehensive published phylogenetic dataset of Macropodoidea suggests close affinity with the currently extant potoroine/macropodid lineage.
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