Zygomaturus

Zygomaturus is an extinct genus of giant marsupial belonging to the family Diprotodontidae which inhabited Australia from the Late Miocene to Late Pleistocene.

Zygomaturus

Paleocolour · CC0 · 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
Sits inside
ZygomaturinaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Marsupialia
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Marsupialia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 5.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 23 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 23 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 15 of 23 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 23 occurrences7.5–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.2–5.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.2–4.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.9–4.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.6–4.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.4–4.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.9–3.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.1–1.8 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.5–1.3 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.3–1.0 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.0–775 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences775 ka–516 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence516 ka–258 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence258 ka–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences5.333 Mya129 ka7.7 Mya0 Mya

23 occurrences of Zygomaturus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

23 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

6 formations

Loxton — 34.15°S, 139.91°EBlack Rock Sandstone — 37.99°S, 145.04°EMoorabool Viaduct Sand — 38.12°S, 144.28°EOtibanda — 2.75°S, 140.33°ED Clay — 35.70°S, 144.83°EAllingham — 19.72°S, 145.60°E

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Zygomaturus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Zygomaturus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Zygomaturus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

323 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Zygomaturus, 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

20 references

Each of the 23 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. 8 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 Zygomaturus

Credit
Paleocolour
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Zygomaturus sp. · qvmag:QVM1992GFV4

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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.

Keep going

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Owen 1858