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Extinct genus of marsupials

Warendja
Temporal range: Late Miocene—Late Pleistocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Vombatidae
Genus: †Warendja
Hope and Wilkinson, 1982
Species
  • Warendja wakefieldi (Hope and Wilkinson, 1982)
  • Warendja encorensis (Brewer et al., 2007)

Warendja is an extinct genus of wombat. It is known from two species, W. encorensis from the Late Miocene Riversleigh site in Queensland, and W. wakefieldi known from the Pleistocene of South Australia, New South Wales, and Victoria. The two species are primarily distinguished by features of their enamel. It became extinct as part of the Quaternary extinction event. Warendja wakefieldi is estimated to have weighed about 10 kg, considerably smaller than living wombats. Warendja thought to be relatively basal amongst wombats, being the most primitive member to possess hypselodont (high crowned) cheek teeth. The morphology of the humerus of W. wakefieldi suggests that it engaged in scratch-digging.

References

  1. ^ Brewer, P., M. Archer, S. Hand, and H. Godthelp. 2007. A new species of the wombat Warendja from late Miocene deposits at Riversleigh, northwest Queensland, Australia. Palaeontology 50:811–828.
  2. ^ Brewer, Philippa (2007-06-01). "New record of Warendja wakefieldi (Vombatidae; Marsupialia) from Wombeyan Caves, New South Wales". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 31 (2): 153–171. Bibcode:2007Alch...31..153B. doi:10.1080/03115510701305132. ISSN 0311-5518. S2CID 129848516.
  3. ^ Hope, J H; Wilkinson, H E. "Warendja wakefieldi, a new genus of wombat (Maruspialia , Vombatidae) from Pleistocene sediments in McEacherns Cave, western Victoria". Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria. 43. Archived from the original on 2019-11-08. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
  4. Long, John A.; Archer, Michael (2002-01-01). Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution. UNSW Press. ISBN 9780868404356.
  5. Talent, John A. (2012-06-28). Earth and Life: Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals and Biogeographic Perturbations Through Time. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9789048134281.
  6. "The weird wonderful wombat Warendja Wakefieldi Hope & Wilkinson - Version details". Trove. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
  7. Johnson, C. N.; Prideaux, G. J. (October 2004). "Extinctions of herbivorous mammals in the late Pleistocene of Australia in relation to their feeding ecology: No evidence for environmental change as cause of extinction: EXTINCTION OF AUSTRALIAN MEGAFAUNA". Austral Ecology. 29 (5): 553–557. doi:10.1111/j.1442-9993.2004.01389.x.
  8. Louys, Julien; Duval, Mathieu; Beck, Robin M. D.; Pease, Eleanor; Sobbe, Ian; Sands, Noel; Price, Gilbert J. (November 2022). Hautier, Lionel (ed.). "Cranial remains of Ramsayia magna from the Late Pleistocene of Australia and the evolution of gigantism in wombats (Marsupialia, Vombatidae)". Papers in Palaeontology. 8 (6). Bibcode:2022PPal....8E1475L. doi:10.1002/spp2.1475. hdl:10072/420259. ISSN 2056-2799.
  9. Brewer, Philippa; Archer, Michael; Hand, Suzanne; Price, Gilbert (2018). "A new species of Miocene wombat (Marsupialia, Vombatiformes) from Riversleigh, Queensland, Australia, and implications for the evolutionary history of the Vombatidae". Palaeontologia Electronica. doi:10.26879/870. hdl:10141/622528.
Vombatiformes
†Thylacoleonidae
Phascolarctidae
Vombatomorphia
†Ilariidae
†Wynyardiidae
Vombatoidea
Vombatidae
†Diprotodontoidea
Palorchestidae
Diprotodontidae
Thylacoleo carnifex Diprotodon optatum
Taxon identifiers
Warendja


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