Euryzygoma
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Euryzygoma Temporal range: Pliocene to |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Subclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Suborder: | Vombatiformes |
| Family: | †Diprotodontidae |
| Genus: | †Euryzygoma |
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†E. dunense Longman, 1921 |
Euryzygoma is an extinct genus of marsupial which inhabited humid eucalyptus forests in Queensland and New South Wales from the Pliocene to the of Australia. Fossils assigned to Euryzygoma suggest that the last species went extinct in the Quaternary extinction event.Euryzygoma is believed to have weighed around 500kg, and differed from other diprotodonts in having unusual, flaring cheekbones that may have been used either for storing food or for sexual display.
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