{"id":147,"date":"2021-11-15T11:37:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T01:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/?page_id=147"},"modified":"2023-05-30T12:43:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T03:13:57","slug":"congruus-kitcheneri","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/fossils\/vertebrate-fossils\/marsupials\/macropodidae-family-kangaroos-wallabies\/congruus-kitcheneri\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Congruus kitcheneri<\/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>Congruus kitcheneri<\/em><\/h1>\n<p><em>Congruus kitcheneri<\/em> is an extinct macropodin kangaroo that was originally described as <em>Wallabia kitcheneri<\/em>. 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.<\/p>\n<p>Check below for more <em>Congrus kitcheneri<\/em> fossils.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Specimen number: <\/strong>WAM 66.9.6<br \/>\n<strong>Skeletal element: <\/strong>Right dentary<br \/>\n<strong>Significance of fossil:<\/strong> Holotype<br \/>\n<strong>Geological age:\u00a0<\/strong>Pleistocene<br \/>\n<strong>Locality\/site: <\/strong>Mammoth 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;470&#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]JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwc3JjJTNEJTIyaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cubW9ycGhvc291cmNlLm9yZyUyRnV2Lmh0bWwlMjMlM0ZtYW5pZmVzdCUzRCUyRm1hbmlmZXN0cyUyRjU0ODQxZjA3LWVlNjItNDNjOS1iZmIwLTlkY2QyMjY3NGI1ZSUyMiUyMHdpZHRoJTNEJTIyNTYwJTIyJTIwaGVpZ2h0JTNEJTIyNDIwJTIyJTIwYWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuJTIwZnJhbWVib3JkZXIlM0QlMjIwJTIyJTNFJTNDJTJGaWZyYW1lJTNF[\/vc_raw_html][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/fossils\/vertebrate-fossils\/marsupials\/macropodidae-family-kangaroos-wallabies\/congruus-kitcheneri\/congruus-kitcheneri-2\/\">View more <em>Congruus kitcheneri<\/em> fossils here.<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Flannery, T. F. (1989). A new species of <em>Wallabia<\/em> (Macropodinae: Marsupialia) from Pleistocene deposits in Mammoth Cave, southwestern Western Australia.\u00a0<em>Records of the Western Australian Museum<\/em>,\u00a0<em>14<\/em>(3), 299-307.<\/p>\n<p>Warburton, N. M., &amp; Prideaux, G. J. (2021). The skeleton of <em>Congruus<\/em> <em>kitcheneri<\/em>, a semiarboreal kangaroo from the Pleistocene of southern Australia.\u00a0<em>Royal Society Open Science<\/em>,\u00a0<em>8<\/em>(3), 202216.[\/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] 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. Check below for more Congrus kitcheneri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"parent":145,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-147","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147","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=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}