Congruus kitcheneri

Congruus kitcheneri is an extinct macropodin kangaroo that was originally described as Wallabia kitcheneri. The species was adapted to a semiarboreal lifestyle, with several features of its skeleton that align better with tree-kangaroos than ground-dwelling macropodines. The scanned specimen is the holotype, collected in 1909.

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Specimen number: WAM 66.9.6
Skeletal element: Right dentary
Significance of fossil: Holotype
Geological age: Pleistocene
Locality/site: Mammoth Cave
State/territory: Western Australia

Figure showing photographs of the skull of Congruus kitcheneri with accompanying line figures describing the characters of the skull.
Skull of Congruus kitcheneri by Natalie M. Warburton and Gavin J. Prideaux - The skeleton of Congruus kitcheneri, a semiarboreal kangaroo from the Pleistocene of southern Australia https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.202216, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=130306921

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Flannery, T. F. (1989). A new species of Wallabia (Macropodinae: Marsupialia) from Pleistocene deposits in Mammoth Cave, southwestern Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, 14(3), 299-307.

Warburton, N. M., & Prideaux, G. J. (2021). The skeleton of Congruus kitcheneri, a semiarboreal kangaroo from the Pleistocene of southern Australia. Royal Society Open Science, 8(3), 202216.

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