Name - Ekaltadeta Archer & Flannery 1985

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:504220 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Ekaltadeta

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Original Description Reference

• Revision of the extinct gigantic rat kangaroos (Potoroidae: Marsupialia), with description of a new Miocene genus and species and a new Pleistocene species of Propleopus. Journal of Paleontology, 59(6) 1985: 1331-1349. [Zoological Record Volume 122]

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Recent Publications

• Revision of the extinct gigantic rat kangaroos (Potoroidae: Marsupialia), with description of a new Miocene genus and species and a new Pleistocene species of Propleopus.
• An investigation of phylogeny in the giant extinct rat kangaroo Ekaltadeta (Propleopinae, Potoroidae, Marsupialia).
• The skull of Ekaltadeta ima (Marsupialia, Hypsiprymnodontidae?): an analysis of some marsupial cranial features and a re-investigation of propleopine phylogeny, with notes on the inference of carnivory in mammals.

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