{"id":541,"date":"2023-05-12T13:52:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T04:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/?page_id=541"},"modified":"2023-06-02T11:32:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T02:02:34","slug":"kolopsis-torus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/fossils\/vertebrate-fossils\/marsupials\/diprotodontidae-family-diprotodons-relatives\/kolopsis-torus\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Kolopsis torus<\/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>Kolopsis torus<\/em><\/h1>\n<p><em>Kolopsis torus<\/em> was a mid-sized diprotodontid known only from the late Miocene Alcoota Local Fauna in the Northern Territory of Australia. Standing around 80 cm tall at the shoulder, this was one of the first diprotodontids to show large body size, a trend that began in the later Miocene and continued through into the Pleistocene. Its teeth suggest it was a generalist browser that would have fed on leaves, shoots and stems.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=&#8221;479&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong>Skeletal element:\u00a0<\/strong>Cranium<strong><br \/>\nSpecimen number:<\/strong> NTM P7245<br \/>\n<strong>Geological age:<\/strong> Miocene<br \/>\n<strong>Locality\/site: <\/strong>Alcoota Local Fauna<strong><br \/>\nState\/territory: <\/strong>Northern Territory[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong>Skeletal element:\u00a0<\/strong>Dentary<strong><br \/>\nSpecimen number:<\/strong> NTM P6472<br \/>\n<strong>Geological age:<\/strong> Miocene<br \/>\n<strong>Locality\/site: <\/strong>Alcoota Local Fauna<strong><br \/>\nState\/territory: <\/strong>Northern Territory[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_raw_html]JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwc3JjJTNEJTIyaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cubW9ycGhvc291cmNlLm9yZyUyRnV2Lmh0bWwlMjMlM0ZtYW5pZmVzdCUzRCUyRm1hbmlmZXN0cyUyRmNmMjE0Y2U1LTZjNDItNGM3OS1iYjM4LWUwZTQ2YTQ5ZGFjOCUyMiUyMHdpZHRoJTNEJTIyNTYwJTIyJTIwaGVpZ2h0JTNEJTIyNDIwJTIyJTIwYWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuJTIwZnJhbWVib3JkZXIlM0QlMjIwJTIyJTNFJTNDJTJGaWZyYW1lJTNF[\/vc_raw_html][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_raw_html]JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwc3JjJTNEJTIyaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cubW9ycGhvc291cmNlLm9yZyUyRnV2Lmh0bWwlMjMlM0ZtYW5pZmVzdCUzRCUyRm1hbmlmZXN0cyUyRmJlMmJlZGYyLWMxNmUtNGJlYS05MmQ3LThjNDgyNTRlNGMyOCUyMiUyMHdpZHRoJTNEJTIyNTYwJTIyJTIwaGVpZ2h0JTNEJTIyNDIwJTIyJTIwYWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuJTIwZnJhbWVib3JkZXIlM0QlMjIwJTIyJTNFJTNDJTJGaWZyYW1lJTNF[\/vc_raw_html][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Woodburne, M. O. (1967). Three new diprotodontids from the Tertiary of the Northern Territory, Australia.\u00a0<i>Bulletin of the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Australia<\/i>,\u00a0<i>85<\/i>, 55-103.[\/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] Kolopsis torus Kolopsis torus was a mid-sized diprotodontid known only from the late Miocene Alcoota Local Fauna in the Northern Territory of Australia. Standing around 80 cm tall at the shoulder, this was one of the first diprotodontids to show large body size, a trend that began in the later Miocene and continued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"parent":149,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-541","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/541","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\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/541\/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=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}