{"id":164,"date":"2021-11-15T13:26:49","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T02:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/?page_id=164"},"modified":"2023-06-02T12:07:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T02:37:58","slug":"ngapakaldia-tedfordi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/fossils\/vertebrate-fossils\/marsupials\/diprotodontidae-family-diprotodons-relatives\/ngapakaldia-tedfordi\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Ngapakaldia tedfordi<\/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>Ngapakaldia tedfordi<\/em><\/h1>\n<p><em>Ngapakaldia tedfordi<\/em> is a sheep sized diprotodontid known from the late Oligocene of central Australia. It is one of the earlist known members of the Diprotodontidae family.<\/p>\n<p>It shares a number of skeletal characteristics with arboreal marsupials, but scientists are unsure if this is a true indicator of its ability to live in trees or simply an ancestral character.<\/p>\n<p>Below we feature a scan of the holotype.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<strong>Skeletal element:<\/strong> Cranium<br \/>\n<strong>Specimen number:<\/strong> SAMA P13851<br \/>\n<strong>Significance of specimen:<\/strong> Holotype<br \/>\n<strong>Geological age:<\/strong> Oligocene<br \/>\n<strong>State\/territory:<\/strong> South Australia<br \/>\n<strong>Locality:<\/strong> Lake Ngapakaldia[\/vc_column_text][vc_raw_html]JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwc3JjJTNEJTIyaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cubW9ycGhvc291cmNlLm9yZyUyRnV2Lmh0bWwlMjMlM0ZtYW5pZmVzdCUzRCUyRm1hbmlmZXN0cyUyRjVjMTVkODJhLTgyMDMtNDIyNi04NGNjLWJiMjA4Mjc2ZWY0MCUyMiUyMHdpZHRoJTNEJTIyNTYwJTIyJTIwaGVpZ2h0JTNEJTIyNDIwJTIyJTIwYWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuJTIwZnJhbWVib3JkZXIlM0QlMjIwJTIyJTNFJTNDJTJGaWZyYW1lJTNF[\/vc_raw_html][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1038&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Weisbecker, V., &amp; Archer, M. (2008). Parallel evolution of hand anatomy in kangaroos and vombatiform marsupials: functional and evolutionary implications.\u00a0<i>Palaeontology<\/i>,\u00a0<i>51<\/i>(2), 321-338.[\/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] Ngapakaldia tedfordi Ngapakaldia tedfordi is a sheep sized diprotodontid known from the late Oligocene of central Australia. It is one of the earlist known members of the Diprotodontidae family. It shares a number of skeletal characteristics with arboreal marsupials, but scientists are unsure if this is a true indicator of its ability to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"parent":149,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-164","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/164","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=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/164\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}