Side (a) and underside (b) views of the Hulitherium skull
Hulitherium restoration
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Infraclass:
Marsupialia
Order:
Diprotodontia
Family:
†Diprotodontidae
Subfamily:
†Zygomaturinae
Genus:
†Hulitherium Flannery & Plane, 1986
Species:
†H. tomasetti
Binomial name
†Hulitherium tomasetti
Flannery & Plane, 1986
Hulitherium tomasetti (meaning "Huli beast", after the Huli people)[1] is an extinct zygomaturine marsupial that lived in New Guinea during the Pleistocene. The species name honours Berard Tomasetti, a Catholic priest in Papua New Guinea, who brought the fossils to the attention of experts.[1][2]
^ abLong, J.; Archer, M.; Flannery, T.; Hand, S. (2002). Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution. The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 91. ISBN 0-8018-7223-5. OCLC 49860159.
^Flannery, T. F.; Plane, M. D. (1986). "A new late Pleistocene diprotodontid (Marsupialia) from Pureni, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea" (PDF). BMR Journal of Australian Geology & Geophysics. 10: 65–76.
Hulitherium tomasetti (meaning "Huli beast", after the Huli people) is an extinct zygomaturine marsupial that lived in New Guinea during the Pleistocene...
expanding grasslands and woodlands. Other contemporaneous dipotodontids (Hulitherium, Z. nimborensia, and Maokopia) were insular forms that were restricted...
†Plaisiodon Genus †Zygomaturus Genus †Kolopsis Genus †Kolopsoides Genus †Hulitherium Genus †Maokopia Family †Palorchestidae: (marsupial tapirs) Genus †Palorchestes...
Various members of Diprotodontidae Diprotodon (largest known marsupial) Hulitherium tomasetti Maokopia ronaldi Zygomaturus Palorchestes ("marsupial tapir")...
extinct in the Holocene Cuddie Springs – Archaeological site in Australia Hulitherium and Maokopia (Diprotodontoids inhabited New Guinea during the Pleistocene)...
100 kg. Murray (1992) suggested that it was most closely related to Hulitherium. The teeth indicate a diet of hard ferns and grasses that still grow...
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