Temporal range: Late Pliocene or Early Pleistocene–recent
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C. yirratji specimen, Grande galerie de l'évolution
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Infraclass:
Marsupialia
Order:
Peramelemorphia
Family:
†Chaeropodidae Gill, 1872
Genus:
†Chaeropus Ogilby, 1838[2]
Type species
Perameles ecaudatus
Ogilby, 1838[2]
Species
Chaeropus ecaudatus
Chaeropus yirratji
Chaeropus baynesi (fossil)
Historic pig-footed bandicoot range in orange
Chaeropus, known as the pig-footed bandicoots, is a genus of small marsupials that became extinct during the 20th century. They were the only members of the family Chaeropodidae in order Peramelemorphia (bandicoots and bilbies), with unusually thin legs, yet were able to move rapidly. Two recognised species[3] inhabited dense vegetation on the arid and semiarid plains of Australia. The genus' distribution range was later reduced to an inland desert region, where it was last recorded in the 1950s; it is now presumed extinct.
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hadrosaurs such as Edmontosaurus possessed hoofed forelimbs. The marsupial Chaeropus also had hooves. The hoof surrounds the distal end of the second phalanx...
1 extinct species Family †Chaeropodidae: Pig-footed bandicoot Genus †Chaeropus: 1 species Family Peramelidae Subfamily Peramelinae Genus Isoodon: short-nosed...
citation needed] also placed it in Peramelidae, but as the sister of Chaeropus in the subfamily Chaeropodinae. Here is a summary of the treatment as...
assemblage, closest to Carodnia. In Australia, the recently-extinct marsupial Chaeropus ("pig-footed bandicoot") also developed hooves similar to those of artiodactyls...
Probably the next to diverge was the recently extinct Chaeropodidae (Chaeropus). The remaining taxa comprise the Peramelidae, which divides into subfamilies...
hybrid species or extinct prehistoric species. Family Chaeropodidae† Genus Chaeropus† (pig-footed bandicoots): one species (one extinct) Family Peramelidae...
McKenna and Bell (1997) also placed it in Peramelidae, but as the sister of Chaeropus in the subfamily Chaeropodinae. Greater bilbies have the characteristics...
bandicoot (lesser bilby) Macrotis leucura Australia E Pig-footed bandicoot Chaeropus ecaudatus Australia E Rabbit bandicoot (bilby) Macrotis lagotis Australia...
extant specimens of the (now extinct) Eastern Chæropus (Chæropus occidentalis) — then also known as Chaeropus ecaudatus (Gould)— whilst on the (1856/1857)...
natives until the 1950s (IUCN). Burbidge, A.A.; Woinarski, J. (2016). "Chaeropus ecaudatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T4322A21965168...
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