Systematics and evolution of the sthenurine kangaroo
Prideaux, Gavin JAuthor
Berkeley, [Calif.] ; London : University of California Press,
c2004.
This work represents an exhaustive review of one of the most important late Cenozoic radiations of Australian marsupials: the short-faced, or sthenurine kangaroos. Sthenurines originated in the Miocene, diversified in the Pliocene, and radiated in the Quaternary to become one of Australia's most conspicuous mammal groups, the only lineage of browsing marsupials comparable in diversity to the browsing artiodactyl guilds of other continents.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
This work represents an exhaustive review of one of the most important late Cenozoic radiations of Australian marsupials: the short-faced, or sthenurine kangaroos. Sthenurines originated in the Miocene, diversified in the Pliocene, and radiated in the Quaternary to become one of Australia's most conspicuous mammal groups, the only lineage of browsing marsupials comparable in diversity to the browsing artiodactyl guilds of other continents.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references.
Sthenurus
Kangaroos, Fossil
Geology
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Paleozoology