Giant wombat Diprotodon ancestors in the LRT: Tillodon and Trogosus
This match took too long to surface.
– but click here: http://reptileevolution.com/diprotodon.htm to see how Tillodon and the giant wombat Diprotodon compare.
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As you might imagine, that kinda takes the fun out of posting.
This makes stylinodons and taeniodonts marsupials
close to koalas. Wikipedia considers both of these eutherian taxa, not metatherian = close to koalas. This may be due to lingering faith in genomic analyses (that omit fossils), rather than trait analyses (that includes fossils).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylinodontidae
Taeniodonta (“banded teeth”)
is an extinct order of eutherian mammals, that lived in North America and Europe from the late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) to the middle Eocene.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taeniodonta
http://reptileevolution.com/reptile-tree.htm
Coombs 1983 looked at
‘Mammalian clawed herbivores’. She wrote, “Tillodonts are a Paleocene-Eocene clawed group known from Eurasia and North America. Most of the described forms are from North America, though Asiatic forms are becoming increasingly known (see, for example, Zhou et al., 1977), and the group may have arisen in Asia (Gingerich and Gunnell, 1979; Zhou and Wang, 1979). Much of the discussion surrounding tillodonts has regarded their affinities. A number of hypotheses of relationship have recently been proposed (Gazin, 1953; McKenna, 1975; Zhou et al., 1977; Szalay, 1977; Gingerich and Gunnell, 1979; Zhou and Wang, 1979). Several have suggested pantodont affinities, but none has yet received general acceptance.”
“Tillodont morphology gives no real suggestion of bipedal browsing (fig. 4) or scansorial habits, though the latter cannot be discounted in view of the well-developed hindclaws, large tail, and other characters. Force adaptations of the forelimb, which could be associated with digging or tearing, are present but less developed in general than in Titanoides or taeniodonts (see fig. 3). Existing evidence leads to a tentative suggestion of
digging or especially tearing, combined with pulling by the anterior teeth, as a method of obtaining fairly coarse plant food.”
Thank you for your patience
during this latest time-off from posting.
References
Coombs MC 1983. Large mammalian clawed herbivores: a comparative study. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 73(7). 95pp.
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