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Perameles bowensis

Extinct species of marsupial

Extinct species of marsupial

Perameles bowensis is an extinct Pliocene-aged species of bandicoot. Fossils have been found in the Wellington Caves of New South Wales. The bandicoot was about 20 centimeters long. It is believed to have gone extinct in the Late Pliocene.

It is probably most closely related to P. sobbei, a Pleistocene-aged bandicoot from Queensland.

References

References

  1. Muirhead, J., Dawson, L. & Archer, M. 1997. Perameles bowensis, a new species of ''Perameles'' (Peramelomorphia, Marsupialia) from Pliocene faunas of Bow and Wellington caves, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 17, 163–174.
  2. [http://australianmuseum.net.au/Perameles-bowensis Australian Museum]
  3. Price, G. J. 2002. ''Perameles sobbei'', sp. nov. (Marsupialia, Peramelidae), a Pleistocene bandicoot from the Darling Downs, south-eastern Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 48, 193-197.
  4. Price, G. J. 2005. Fossil bandicoots (Marsupialia, Peramelidae) and environmental change during the Pleistocene on the Darling Downs, southeastern Queensland, Australia. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 4, 347-356.
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