{"id":143,"date":"2021-11-15T11:24:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T00:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/?page_id=143"},"modified":"2023-06-02T12:51:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T03:21:25","slug":"borungaboodie-hatcheri","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/fossils\/vertebrate-fossils\/marsupials\/potoroidae-family-bettongs-potoroos-rat-kangaroos\/borungaboodie-hatcheri\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Borungaboodie hatcheri<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1><em>Borungaboodie hatcheri<\/em><\/h1>\n<p><em>Borungaboodie hatcheri<\/em> is an extinct species of very large bettong, related to the recently-extinct desert rat-kangaroo, <em>Caloprymnus campestris<\/em>.\u00a0<em>Borungaboodie hatcheri<\/em>, first described by Professor Gavin Prideaux in 1999, lived in southwestern Australia during the Pleistocene epoch.<\/p>\n<p>Very little is known of this species because of the scarcity of fossil material, but it is believed to have inhabited dry woodlands. Its large, thick jaw suggests a rougher diet than modern bettongs, and, due to its size, may have also included more opportunistic omnivory\u2014the occasional eating of animals. The scanned specimen below is the holotype for the species.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Specimen number:<\/strong> WAM 97.5.1<br \/>\n<strong>Skeletal element: <\/strong>right dentary<br \/>\n<strong>Significance of specimen:<\/strong> Holotype<br \/>\n<strong>Geological age:\u00a0<\/strong>Pleistocene<br \/>\n<strong>Locality\/site: <\/strong>Tight Entrance Cave<br \/>\n<strong>State\/territory: <\/strong>Western Australia[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=&#8221;547&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_raw_html]JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwc3JjJTNEJTIyaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cubW9ycGhvc291cmNlLm9yZyUyRnV2Lmh0bWwlMjMlM0ZtYW5pZmVzdCUzRCUyRm1hbmlmZXN0cyUyRjI5YTg0ZjUyLTgxMzEtNDhiMi05YWMzLThmYWJjYzY0ZDljZCUyMiUyMHdpZHRoJTNEJTIyNTYwJTIyJTIwaGVpZ2h0JTNEJTIyNDIwJTIyJTIwYWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuJTIwZnJhbWVib3JkZXIlM0QlMjIwJTIyJTNFJTNDJTJGaWZyYW1lJTNF[\/vc_raw_html][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]Prideaux, G. J. (1999) <em>Borungaboodie hatcheri<\/em> gen. et sp. nov., a very large bettong (Marsupialia: Macropodoidea) from the Pleistocene of southwestern Australia. <i>Records of the Western Australian Museum<\/i>,\u00a0<i>57<\/i>, 317\u2013329.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Borungaboodie hatcheri Borungaboodie hatcheri is an extinct species of very large bettong, related to the recently-extinct desert rat-kangaroo, Caloprymnus campestris.\u00a0Borungaboodie hatcheri, first described by Professor Gavin Prideaux in 1999, lived in southwestern Australia during the Pleistocene epoch. Very little is known of this species because of the scarcity of fossil material, but it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"parent":141,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-143","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}