Macropodinae

Macropodinae is a subfamily of marsupials in the family Macropodidae, which includes the kangaroos, wallabies, and related species. The subfamily includes about ten genera and at least 51 species. It includes all living members of the Macropodidae except for the banded hare-wallaby, the only surviving member of the subfamily Lagostrophinae.

Macropodinae

Pikuan · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
kangarooPBDB
Sits inside
MacropodidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Macropodidae
Life habit
saltatorialPBDB, for Macropodidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 3.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 342 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 342 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 59 of 342 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 255 of 342 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 13 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 17 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 17 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 27 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 50 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 50 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 165 occurrences3.6 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

342 occurrences of Macropodinae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

342 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

13 formations

Grange Burn — 37.73°S, 141.94°ED Clay — 35.70°S, 144.83°EOtibanda — 7.25°S, 146.50°EOtibanda — 7.21°N, 146.75°EOtibanda — 7.22°S, 146.75°EMoorna — 34.12°S, 141.65°ENelson Bay — 38.60°S, 141.58°EChinchilla Sand — 26.75°S, 150.63°EChinchilla Sand — 26.80°S, 150.68°EAllingham — 19.72°S, 145.60°EWhaler's Bluff — 38.36°S, 141.60°EMoorabool Viaduct Sand — 38.12°S, 144.28°ELoxton — 34.15°S, 139.91°EJemmys Point — 37.82°S, 148.13°EKatipiri — 28.38°S, 137.68°ETirari — 27.75°S, 140.73°E

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The named rock units Macropodinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 297 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Macropodinae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Macropodinae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

597 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 136 sites for Macropodinae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

71 references

Each of the 342 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 59 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Macropodinae

Credit
Pikuan
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Macropodinae indet. · FU:2793

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMacropodidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1821