{"id":170,"date":"2021-11-15T13:39:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T03:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/?page_id=170"},"modified":"2023-06-02T12:12:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T02:42:38","slug":"pitikantia-dailyi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/fossils\/vertebrate-fossils\/marsupials\/diprotodontidae-family-diprotodons-relatives\/pitikantia-dailyi\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Pitikantia dailyi<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1><em>Pitikantia dailyi<\/em><\/h1>\n<p><em>Pitikantia dailyi<\/em> is a sheep-sized diprotodontid that is only known from the Oligocene of the Lake Eyre Basin in central Australia. One of the earliest diprotodontids, this species is poorly understood due to its rarity in the fossil record.<\/p>\n<p>The bones that can be viewed here are all from the holotype specimen from Discovery Basin, Lake Ngapakaldi, South Australia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Specimen number:<\/strong> SAMA P13852<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\/site:<\/strong> Discovery Basin, Lake Ngapakaldi, Etadunna[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=&#8221;551&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong>Skeletal element:<\/strong> Dentary (right)[\/vc_column_text][vc_raw_html]JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwc3JjJTNEJTIyaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cubW9ycGhvc291cmNlLm9yZyUyRnV2Lmh0bWwlMjMlM0ZtYW5pZmVzdCUzRCUyRm1hbmlmZXN0cyUyRmZhYTc5YjdiLTI4NDItNGZhOS1hMTE5LTA1ZWZlZDFjMTA3MyUyMiUyMHdpZHRoJTNEJTIyNTYwJTIyJTIwaGVpZ2h0JTNEJTIyNDIwJTIyJTIwYWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuJTIwZnJhbWVib3JkZXIlM0QlMjIwJTIyJTNFJTNDJTJGaWZyYW1lJTNFJTBBJTBB[\/vc_raw_html][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong>Skeletal element:<\/strong> Premaxilla (right)[\/vc_column_text][vc_raw_html]JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwc3JjJTNEJTIyaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cubW9ycGhvc291cmNlLm9yZyUyRnV2Lmh0bWwlMjMlM0ZtYW5pZmVzdCUzRCUyRm1hbmlmZXN0cyUyRmEyMmVkYzY2LTQ0ZDctNDc1OC05OTgwLTM2MzVmNGY1NGJlYSUyMiUyMHdpZHRoJTNEJTIyNTYwJTIyJTIwaGVpZ2h0JTNEJTIyNDIwJTIyJTIwYWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuJTIwZnJhbWVib3JkZXIlM0QlMjIwJTIyJTNFJTNDJTJGaWZyYW1lJTNFJTBB[\/vc_raw_html][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Camens, A. B. (2010).\u00a0<i>Systematic and palaeobiological implications of postcranial morphology in the Diprotodontidae (Marsupialia)<\/i>\u00a0(Doctoral dissertation).<\/p>\n<p>Munson, C. J. (1992).\u00a0<i>Postcranial descriptions of Ilaria and Ngapakaldia (Vombatiformes, Marsupialia) and the phylogeny of the vombatiforms based on postcranial morphology<\/i> (Vol. 125). Univ of California Press.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Pitikantia dailyi Pitikantia dailyi is a sheep-sized diprotodontid that is only known from the Oligocene of the Lake Eyre Basin in central Australia. One of the earliest diprotodontids, this species is poorly understood due to its rarity in the fossil record. The bones that can be viewed here are all from the holotype [&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-170","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170","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=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170\/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=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}