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Locomotion in Extinct Giant Kangaroos: Were Sthenurines Hop-Less Monsters?

Sthenurine kangaroos (Marsupialia, Diprotodontia, Macropodoidea) were an extinct subfamily within the family Macropodidae (kangaroos and rat-kangaroos). These “short-faced browsers” first appeared in the middle Miocene, and radiated in the Plio-Pleistocene into a diversity of mostly large-bodied for...

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Autores principales: Janis, Christine M., Buttrill, Karalyn, Figueirido, Borja
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4198187/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25333823
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0109888