{"id":520,"date":"2023-05-12T12:17:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T02:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/?page_id=520"},"modified":"2023-05-30T15:46:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T06:16:23","slug":"protemnodon-brehus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/fossils\/vertebrate-fossils\/marsupials\/macropodidae-family-kangaroos-wallabies\/protemnodon-brehus\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Protemnodon brehus<\/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>Protemnodon brehus<\/em><\/h1>\n<p><em>Protemnodon brehus<\/em> is an extinct macropodin kangaroo that was first described by Sir Richard Owen in 1874. The species was widespread across southern Australia in the Pleistocene, becoming extinct around 40,000 years ago. It was a large, robust kangaroo, probably hopping considerably slower and less efficiently than the modern red and grey kangaroos.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Specimen number: <\/strong>SAMA P13027<br \/>\n<strong>Skeletal element: <\/strong>cranium<br \/>\n<strong>Geological age:\u00a0<\/strong>Pleistocene<br \/>\n<strong>Locality\/site: <\/strong>Curramulka Town Well Cave<br \/>\n<strong>State\/territory:\u00a0<\/strong>South Australia<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=&#8221;522&#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]JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwc3JjJTNEJTIyaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cubW9ycGhvc291cmNlLm9yZyUyRnV2Lmh0bWwlMjMlM0ZtYW5pZmVzdCUzRCUyRm1hbmlmZXN0cyUyRmVlNDFiZTQzLWJiNDEtNDg2Mi1hNDI0LWY1NjVmYzU1OTgxMSUyMiUyMHdpZHRoJTNEJTIyNTYwJTIyJTIwaGVpZ2h0JTNEJTIyNDIwJTIyJTIwYWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuJTIwZnJhbWVib3JkZXIlM0QlMjIwJTIyJTNFJTNDJTJGaWZyYW1lJTNF[\/vc_raw_html][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Owen, R. (1874) VIII. On the fossil mammals of Australia.\u2014part VIII. Family Macropodid\u00e6: genera <em>Macropus, Osphranter, Phascolagus, Sthenurus,<\/em> and <em>Protemnodon.<\/em>\u00a0<i>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London<\/i>, 164, 245\u2013287.<\/p>\n<p>Bartholomai, A. (1973) The genus <em>Protemnodon<\/em> Owen (Marsupialia: Macropodidae) in the upper Cainozoic deposits of Queensland. <em>Memoirs of the Queensland Museum<\/em>, 16, 309\u2013363.[\/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] Protemnodon brehus Protemnodon brehus is an extinct macropodin kangaroo that was first described by Sir Richard Owen in 1874. The species was widespread across southern Australia in the Pleistocene, becoming extinct around 40,000 years ago. It was a large, robust kangaroo, probably hopping considerably slower and less efficiently than the modern red and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"parent":145,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-520","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/520","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\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/520\/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=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}