Euryzygoma
| Euryzygoma Temporal range: Pliocene
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| Life reconstruction of Euryzygoma dunense | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | †Diprotodontidae |
| Genus: | †Euryzygoma Longman, 1921 |
| Species: | †E. dunense
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| Binomial name | |
| †Euryzygoma dunense De Vis, 1888
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Euryzygoma is an extinct genus of marsupial which inhabited humid eucalyptus forests in Queensland and New South Wales during the Pliocene of Australia.[1][2] Euryzygoma is believed to have weighed around 500 kg,[3] and differed from other diprotodonts in having unusual, flaring cheekbones that may have been used either for storing food or for sexual display.[4] Euryzygoma is thought to be the ancestral genus from which Diprotodon evolved.[5]
References
- ^ "Fossilworks: Euryzygoma". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ "Anaspides.net". www.anaspides.net. Archived from the original on 2017-07-20. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
- ISBN 9780306460920.
- ISBN 9780868404356.
- doi:10.1002/jqs.1285.
- "Australia's Lost World: Prehistoric Animals of Riversleigh" by Michael Archer, Suzanne J. Hand, and Henk Godthelp
- "Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution" by John A. Long, Michael Archer, Timothy Flannery, and Suzanne Hand
