Lasiorhinus Explained

Lasiorhinus is the genus containing the two extant hairy-nosed wombats, which are found in Australia. The southern hairy-nosed wombat is found in some of the semiarid to arid regions belt from New South Wales southwest to the South Australia-Western Australia border. The IUCN categorises it as Near Threatened. Conversely, the northern hairy-nosed wombat is categorised as Critically Endangered and only survives in a 3km2 range within the Epping Forest National Park in Queensland, but formerly also existed in Victoria and New South Wales.

Species

The genus includes the following species:

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Lasiorhinus krefftii		Queensland
	Lasiorhinus latifrons		From the eastern Nullarbor Plain to the New South Wales border area

Fossils

• †Lasiorhinus angustidens (fossil)^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Megafauna. austhrutime.com. 2017-04-20.
2. Web site: Anaspides.net. www.anaspides.net. 2017-04-20. 2017-07-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20170720160049/http://www.anaspides.net/earth_life_sciences/megafauna_extinction.html. dead.
3. Web site: The Recently Extinct Plants and Animals Database cubit: The Recently Extinct Plants and Animals Database Extinct Mammals: Marsupials: Lasiorhinus angustidens. cubits.org. 2017-04-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20170421002941/http://cubits.org/theextinctioncubit/db/extinctmammals/view/18814/. 2017-04-21. dead.
4. Book: Johnson, Chris. Australia's Mammal Extinctions: A 50,000-Year History. 2006-11-02. Cambridge University Press. 9780521686600. en.
5. Book: Extinctions in Near Time: Causes, Contexts, and Consequences. MacPhee. Ross D. E.. SUES. HANS-DIETER. 2013-11-09. Springer Science & Business Media. 9781475752021. en.
6. Johnson. 2002. Determinants of loss of mammal species during the Late Quaternary 'megafauna' extinctions: life history and ecology, but not body size.. Proc. R. Soc. Lond.. B 269. 1506. 2221–2227. 10.1098/rspb.2002.2130. 12427315. 1691151.
7. Book: MacPhee, R. D. E.. Extinctions in Near Time. 1999-06-30. Springer Science & Business Media. 9780306460920. en.