{"id":558,"date":"2023-05-18T10:15:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T00:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/?page_id=558"},"modified":"2023-06-02T12:20:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T02:50:34","slug":"pyramios-alcootense","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/fossils\/vertebrate-fossils\/marsupials\/diprotodontidae-family-diprotodons-relatives\/pyramios-alcootense\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Pyramios alcootense<\/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>Pyramios alcootense<\/em><\/h1>\n<p><em>Pyramios alcootense<\/em> was a large diprotodontid, known from the late Miocene fossil beds of Alcoota Station in the Northern Territory, where it is considered rare. 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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] Pyramios alcootense Pyramios alcootense was a large diprotodontid, known from the late Miocene fossil beds of Alcoota Station in the Northern Territory, where it is considered rare. It is thought to be the oldest species of the subfamily Diprotodontinae.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1041&#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]Skeletal element:\u00a0Cranium Specimen number: NTM P4190 Geological age:\u00a0Miocene Locality\/site:\u00a0Alcoota Local [&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-558","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/558","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=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/558\/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=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}