Macropus (Petrogale)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- rock wallabyPBDB
- Sits inside
- MacropusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Macropodidae
- Life habit
- saltatorialPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.
11 occurrences of Macropus (Petrogale) 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
11 occurrences- Pliocene15%
- Pleistocene48%
- Holocene37%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Macropus (Petrogale) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Macropus (Petrogale) and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Macropus (Petrogale) and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
231 taxa- Perameles nasuta5 sites
- Trichosurus vulpecula5 sites
- Aepyprymnus rufescens4 sites
- Antechinus flavipes4 sites
- Protemnodon brehus4 sites
- Pseudocheirus peregrinus4 sites
- Sminthopsis murina4 sites
- Bettongia3 sites
- Dasyurus3 sites
- Dasyurus maculatus3 sites
- Isoodon3 sites
- Isoodon obesulus3 sites
- Macropus (Macropus) giganteus3 sites
- Petrogale penicillata3 sites
- Protemnodon3 sites
- Rattus3 sites
- Sthenurus3 sites
- Thylacinus cynocephalus3 sites
- Bettongia lesueur2 sites
- Bettongia penicillata2 sites
- Brachyura2 sites
- Chelonia mydas2 sites
- Conilurus2 sites
- Dasyurus geoffroii2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Macropus (Petrogale), 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
10 references- Tropical Rainforests of North Queensland: Their Conservation Significance2
- Late Holocene hunting economies in coastal southeastern Australia: Insights from the archaeological fauna of Curracurrang 1 Rockshelter, Royal National Park1
- Mesozoic to early Quaternary mammal faunas of Victoria, South-East Australia1
- The late Quaternary sediments and fossil vertebrate fauna from Cathedral Cave, Wellington Caves, New South Wales1
- Magnetic polarity stratigraphy of Pliocene and Pleistocene fossil vertebrate localities in southeastern Australia1
- Mandu Mandu Creek Rockshelter: Pleistocene Human Coastal Occupation of North West Cape, Western Australia1
- Marsupial fossils from Wellington Caves, New South Wales; the historic and scientific significance of the collections in the Australian Museum, Sydney1
- Quaternary vertebrate faunas from the Texas Caves of southeastern Queensland1
- Late Quaternary mammal remains, spanning about 30,000 years from excavations in Devil's Lair, Western Australia1
- A fossil bone deposit near Perth, Western Australia, interpreted as a carnivore's den after feeding tests on living Sarcophilus (Marsupialia, Dasyuridae)1
Each of the 11 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. 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.
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No picture of Macropus (Petrogale) was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Macropus (Petrogale), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Macropus (Petrogale) was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMacropus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1837)