Palorchestidae

Palorchestidae sunt familia marsupialium exstinctorum, olim in Australia habitantium. Genera quattuor comprehendit:

• Propalorchestes (Murray, 1986)
• Ngapakaldia (Stirton, 1967)
• Palorchestes (Owen, 1873)
• Pitikantia dailyi (Stirton, 1967)

Bibliographia

• Karen H. Black, "A new species of Palorchestidae (Marsupialia) from the late middle to early late Miocene Encore Local Fauna, Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland" in Memoirs of the Queensland Museum vol. 41 (1997) pp. 181-186
• Gilbert J. Price, Scott Hocknull, "A small adult Palorchestes (Marsupialia, Palorchestidae) from the Pleistocene of the Darling Downs, southeast Queensland" in Memoirs of the Queensland Museum (2011)
• Hazel L. Richards et al., "The extraordinary osteology and functional morphology of the limbs in Palorchestidae, a family of strange extinct marsupial giants" in PLOS One (13 Septembris 2019
• G. H. H. Tate, "Results of the Archbold Expeditions, no. 59. Studies on the anatomy and phylogeny of the Macropodidae (Marsupialia)" in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History vol. 91 (1948) pp. 235-351

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