Sthenurus[1][2] Temporal range:
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Disarticulated Sthenurus sp. skeleton at the Museum of Victoria | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Diprotodontia |
Suborder: | Macropodiformes |
Family: | Macropodidae |
Subfamily: | †Sthenurinae |
Tribe: | †Sthenurini |
Genus: | †Sthenurus (Owen, 1873a) |
Paleospecies | |
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Sthenurus ("strong tail") is an extinct genus of kangaroos. With a length around 3 m (10 ft), some species were twice as large as modern extant species. Sthenurus was related to the better-known Procoptodon. The subfamily Sthenurinae is believed to have separated from its sister taxon, the Macropodinae (kangaroos and wallabies), halfway through the Miocene, and then its population grew during the Pliocene.[3]
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