{"id":679,"date":"2023-05-29T11:30:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T02:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/?page_id=679"},"modified":"2023-06-02T12:12:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T02:42:57","slug":"palorchestes-painei","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/fossils\/vertebrate-fossils\/marsupials\/diprotodontidae-family-diprotodons-relatives\/palorchestes-painei\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Palorchestes painei<\/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>Palorchestes painei<\/em><\/h1>\n<p>Members of the family Palorchestidae have been present in Australia from the late Oligocene through to the late Pleistocene. Featuring tall, narrow skulls with small orbits and a long, narrow snout, their unusal morphology and rarity of fossil material has led to various hypotheses on how these animals lived and looked. The Miocene <em>Palorchestes painei<\/em> is a poorly known taxon due to the scarcity of fossil material.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Skeletal element:<\/strong> Cranium<br \/>\n<strong>Specimen number:<\/strong> NTM P5559<br \/>\n<strong>Geological age:<\/strong> Miocene<br \/>\n<strong>State\/territory:<\/strong> Northern Territory<br \/>\n<strong>Locality\/site:<\/strong> Main Pit, Alcoota[\/vc_column_text][vc_raw_html]JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwc3JjJTNEJTIyaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cubW9ycGhvc291cmNlLm9yZyUyRnV2Lmh0bWwlMjMlM0ZtYW5pZmVzdCUzRCUyRm1hbmlmZXN0cyUyRjFhN2Q1ZmQyLWZmOWUtNDg3ZS1hMjFjLWNiZGNiZjBjZGM3NyUyMiUyMHdpZHRoJTNEJTIyNTYwJTIyJTIwaGVpZ2h0JTNEJTIyNDIwJTIyJTIwYWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuJTIwZnJhbWVib3JkZXIlM0QlMjIwJTIyJTNFJTNDJTJGaWZyYW1lJTNF[\/vc_raw_html][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=&#8221;690&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Woodburne, M. O. (1967).\u00a0<i>The Alcoota Fauna, central Australia: an integrated palaeontological and geological study<\/i>\u00a0(No. 87). Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics.[\/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] Palorchestes painei Members of the family Palorchestidae have been present in Australia from the late Oligocene through to the late Pleistocene. Featuring tall, narrow skulls with small orbits and a long, narrow snout, their unusal morphology and rarity of fossil material has led to various hypotheses on how these animals lived and looked. [&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-679","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/679","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=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/679\/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=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}