Euowenia
| Euowenia Temporal range: Middle to late Pliocene | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | Diprotodontidae |
| Genus: | Euowenia De Vis 1887 |
| Species | |
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E. grata | |
Euowenia is an extinct genus of Diprotodontia from the Pliocene. It is known only from three locations on mainland Australia, Chinchilla in Queensland, Menindee in New South Wales and the Tirari formation on the Warburton River in the Lake Eyre basin.[1]
References
- Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution by John A. Long, Michael Archer, Timothy Flannery, and Suzanne Hand (page 79)
- Dinosaur Encyclopedia by Jayne Parsons (page 207)
- ↑ http://www.springerlink.com/content/d2397x58th6q7085/fulltext.pdf Palaeobiology of Euowenia grata (Marsupialia: Diprotodontinae) and its Presence in Northern South Australia by Aaron B. Camens & Roderick T. Wells Published online: 31 October 2009 # Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2009
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