{"id":168,"date":"2021-11-15T13:34:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T03:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/?page_id=168"},"modified":"2023-06-02T13:25:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T03:55:57","slug":"vombatus-hacketti","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/fossils\/vertebrate-fossils\/marsupials\/vombatidae-family-wombats\/vombatus-hacketti\/","title":{"rendered":"Vombatus hacketti<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Vombatus hacketti<\/em><\/h1>\n

Hackett’s wombat<\/h2>\n

Vombatus hacketti <\/em>is an extinct wombat known from southwestern Australia. The species is known from the late Pleistocene aged Mammoth Cave faunal assemblage, but also from a sedimentary unit aged 21\u20137 thousand years, indicating that it persisted until at least 21 thousand years ago, and potentially into the Holocene. Fossils indicate that it was larger than its extant relative Vombatus ursinus,<\/em> which is the only other known member of this genus.<\/p>\n

The bones that can be viewed here are all from the holotype specimen from Mammoth Cave, Western Australia.<\/p>\n

Specimen number:<\/strong> WAM 60.10.3
\nSignificance of specimen:<\/strong> Holotype
\nGeological age:<\/strong> Pleistocene
\nState\/territory:<\/strong> Western Australia
\nLocality\/site:<\/strong> Mammoth Cave, Margaret River[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=”569″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes”][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeIn”]Skeletal element:<\/strong> Cranium[\/vc_column_text][vc_raw_html]JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwc3JjJTNEJTIyaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cubW9ycGhvc291cmNlLm9yZyUyRnV2Lmh0bWwlMjMlM0ZtYW5pZmVzdCUzRCUyRm1hbmlmZXN0cyUyRjFlZjM5ZTQyLTZlNjgtNDE5MS1iZTk4LTM0ZDMzMTU0Zjc5ZSUyMiUyMHdpZHRoJTNEJTIyNTYwJTIyJTIwaGVpZ2h0JTNEJTIyNDIwJTIyJTIwYWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuJTIwZnJhbWVib3JkZXIlM0QlMjIwJTIyJTNFJTNDJTJGaWZyYW1lJTNF[\/vc_raw_html][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeIn”]Skeletal element:<\/strong> Mandible[\/vc_column_text][vc_raw_html]JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwc3JjJTNEJTIyaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cubW9ycGhvc291cmNlLm9yZyUyRnV2Lmh0bWwlMjMlM0ZtYW5pZmVzdCUzRCUyRm1hbmlmZXN0cyUyRmI1OWQzYjA5LWIzMTktNDM2Yi05NzRiLWNiYjM0ZTc1NGY0YyUyMiUyMHdpZHRoJTNEJTIyNTYwJTIyJTIwaGVpZ2h0JTNEJTIyNDIwJTIyJTIwYWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuJTIwZnJhbWVib3JkZXIlM0QlMjIwJTIyJTNFJTNDJTJGaWZyYW1lJTNF[\/vc_raw_html][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

View more bones from the Vombatus hacketti<\/em> holotype<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Vertebrae:<\/strong> Cervical vertebra<\/a><\/span> | Sacrum<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n

Forelimb:<\/strong> Humerus (left)<\/span><\/a> | Humerus (right)<\/span><\/a> | Ulnae (left and right)<\/span><\/a> | Radius (right)<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n

Hindlimb:<\/strong> Femur (left)<\/a><\/span> | Femur (right)<\/a><\/span> | Tibia (left)<\/a> <\/span>| Tibia (right)<\/a><\/span> | Fibula<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n

Pectoral girdle:<\/strong> Scapula (left and right)<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n

Pelvic girdle:<\/strong> Pelvis (left and right)<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Glauert, L. (1910).\u00a0The mammoth cave<\/i>. Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery.<\/p>\n

Jankowski, N. R., Gully, G. A., Jacobs, Z., Roberts, R. G., & Prideaux, G. J. (2016). A late Quaternary vertebrate deposit in Kudjal Yolgah Cave, south\u2010western Australia: refining regional late Pleistocene extinctions.\u00a0Journal of Quaternary Science<\/i>,\u00a031<\/i>(5), 538-550.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Vombatus hacketti Hackett’s wombat Vombatus hacketti is an extinct wombat known from southwestern Australia. The species is known from the late Pleistocene aged Mammoth Cave faunal assemblage, but also from a sedimentary unit aged 21\u20137 thousand years, indicating that it persisted until at least 21 thousand years ago, and potentially into the Holocene. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"parent":166,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-168","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168","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=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}