Hulitherium tomasetti (lat.) Is a species of extinct marsupial mammals from the subfamily Zygomaturinae [2] . Typical and only species in the genus Hulitherium . In the Pleistocene he lived in New Guinea [1] .
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Title
The genus Hulitherium is named after the Papuan people of Huli [3] . The species name tomasetti is given in honor of Bernard Tomasetti , who drew the attention of researchers to the corresponding fossil remains [3] [2] .
Description
The view is described on the basis of finds of an almost complete skull, several teeth, fragments of the jaw and other bones.
They lived in mountain rain forests and ate perhaps bamboo . It is believed that these animals were a marsupial analogue of giant pandas. Representatives of Hulitherium tomasetti were one of the largest mammals of New Guinea - their growth was up to a meter, body length was close to two, weight is estimated at 75-200 kg. There is an assumption that in their extinction the main role was played by people.
Systematics
Murray (1992) concludes that Hulitherium is most closely related to the extinct New Guinean genus Maokopia , and together they are closest to Kolopsis rotundus , also from this island. Black and Makness (1999) suggest that the Hulitherium clade is most closely related to the clade uniting Zygomaturus and another genus from Australia not yet described, and that it is closer to this last clade than to Kolopsis [3] .
See also
- Zygomaturus
- Silvabestius
- Neohelos
- Kolopsis
Notes
- β 1 2 Hulitherium thomasetti (English) information on the Paleobiology Database website. (Retrieved November 18, 2017) .
- β 1 2 Flannery TF A new late Pleistocene diprotodontid (Marsupialia) from Pureni, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea (English) // BMR Journal of Australian Geology & Geophysic: journal. - 1986. - Vol. 10 . - P. 65β76 .
- β 1 2 3 Long J., Archer M., Flannery T., Hand S. Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution . - The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. - P. 91. - ISBN 0-8018-7223-5 .
Sources
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- Australia's Lost World: Prehistoric Animals of Riversleigh by Michael Archer, Suzanne J. Hand, and Henk Godthelp
- Classification of Mammals by Malcolm C. McKenna and Susan K. Bell.
- Extinctions in Near Time: Causes, Contexts, and Consequences (Advances in Vertebrate Paleobiology) by Ross DE MacPhee and Hans-Dieter Sues.