{"id":999,"date":"2023-05-30T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T08:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/?page_id=999"},"modified":"2023-06-01T12:33:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T03:03:10","slug":"lemdubuoryctes-aruensis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/fossils\/vertebrate-fossils\/marsupials\/peramelemorphia\/lemdubuoryctes-aruensis\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemdubuoryctes aruensis<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lemdubuoryctes aruensis <\/em><\/h1>\n

Described in 2016 by Kear, Aplin and Westerman, this small, primitive bandicoot species is known from a small number of fossils from a single locality on an island in eastern Indonesia. Its ecology is unknown.<\/p>\n

Despite living relatively recently (28\u20139\u2009ka), L. aruensis<\/em> appears closest related to stem peramelemorphians. This means that the species evolved from a group of bandicoots distantly related to modern bandicoots and bilbies, of which L. aruensis<\/em> seems to be the only member known to science. Unknown lineages such as this are called ‘ghost lineages’.<\/p>\n

Skeletal element:<\/strong> partial left maxilla
\nSpecimen number:<\/strong> WAM 14.9.6
\nSignificance of specimen:<\/strong> Holotype
\nGeological age:<\/strong> Late Pleistocene\/Holocene
\nState\/territory:<\/strong> Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia
\nLocality\/site:<\/strong> Liang Lemdubu Cave[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_raw_html]JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwc3JjJTNEJTIyaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cubW9ycGhvc291cmNlLm9yZyUyRnV2Lmh0bWwlMjMlM0ZtYW5pZmVzdCUzRCUyRm1hbmlmZXN0cyUyRjE2ZTMzZDUzLTFmNDYtNDFjZC1iOTU0LTI1YzM1ODkzNWY3MyUyMiUyMHdpZHRoJTNEJTIyNTYwJTIyJTIwaGVpZ2h0JTNEJTIyNDIwJTIyJTIwYWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuJTIwZnJhbWVib3JkZXIlM0QlMjIwJTIyJTNFJTNDJTJGaWZyYW1lJTNF[\/vc_raw_html][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=”1000″ img_size=”medium” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Kear, B., Aplin, K., and Westerman, M. (2016) Bandicoot fossils and DNA elucidate lineage antiquity amongst xeric-adapted Australasian marsupials. Scientific Reports<\/i> 6, 37537.
\nDOI: 10.1038\/srep37537<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Lemdubuoryctes aruensis Described in 2016 by Kear, Aplin and Westerman, this small, primitive bandicoot species is known from a small number of fossils from a single locality on an island in eastern Indonesia. Its ecology is unknown. Despite living relatively recently (28\u20139\u2009ka), L. aruensis appears closest related to stem peramelemorphians. This means that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"parent":1015,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-999","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/999","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=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/999\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}