Sedophascolomys Explained

Sedophascolomys is an extinct genus of wombat known from the Pliocene and Pleistocene of Australia. There is a single recognised species, S. medius, which was formerly placed in the invalid genus Phascolomys.^[1] It was found in the northeastern and eastern regions of the continent.^[2] It is estimated to be somewhat larger than extant wombats, with a body mass of .^[3] The youngest remains of the genus date to the Late Pleistocene, around 50–40,000 years ago.^[4] It is thought to be closely related to the giant wombat genera Phascolonus and Ramsayia.

Notes and References

1. Louys . Julien . 2015-07-03 . Wombats (Vombatidae: Marsupialia) from the Pliocene Chinchilla Sand, southeast Queensland, Australia . Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology . en . 39 . 3 . 394–406 . 10.1080/03115518.2015.1014737 . 129092884 . 0311-5518.
2. Dawson . Lyndall . January 2006 . An ecophysiological approach to the extinction of large marsupial herbivores in middle and late Pleistocene Australia . Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology . en . 30 . supl 1 . 89–114 . 10.1080/03115510609506857 . 84794887 . 0311-5518.
3. Louys . Julien . Duval . Mathieu . Beck . Robin M. D. . Pease . Eleanor . Sobbe . Ian . Sands . Noel . Price . Gilbert J. . November 2022 . Hautier . Lionel . Cranial remains of Ramsayia magna from the Late Pleistocene of Australia and the evolution of gigantism in wombats (Marsupialia, Vombatidae) . Papers in Palaeontology . en . 8 . 6 . 10.1002/spp2.1475 . 10072/420259 . 254622473 . 2056-2799. free .
4. Hocknull . Scott A. . Lewis . Richard . Arnold . Lee J. . Pietsch . Tim . Joannes-Boyau . Renaud . Price . Gilbert J. . Moss . Patrick . Wood . Rachel . Dosseto . Anthony . Louys . Julien . Olley . Jon . Lawrence . Rochelle A. . 2020-05-18 . Extinction of eastern Sahul megafauna coincides with sustained environmental deterioration . Nature Communications . en . 11 . 1 . 2250 . 10.1038/s41467-020-15785-w . 2041-1723 . 7231803 . 32418985. 2020NatCo..11.2250H .