Palorchestes ("ancient leaper") is an extinct genus of large terrestrial, herbivorous Australian marsupial of the family Palorchestidae, living from the Miocene through to the Late Pleistocene. Like other palorchestids, it had highly retracted nasal region suggesting that it had a prehensile lip, as well as highly unusual clawed forelimbs that were used to grasp vegetation.
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Palorchestes was a selective browser. The unusual morphology of palorchestids makes their ecology difficult to interpret. The elbow of Palorchestes had...
had relatively unspecialsed forelimbs, the last member of the family, Palorchestes developed unusual clawed forelimbs with a morphology unlike that of any...
marsupial known, living or extinct, to have conducted seasonal migrations. Palorchestes azael was a diprotodontoid similar in size to Zygomaturus. It had long...
"A new species of Thylacoleo and notes on some caudal vertebrae of Palorchestes azael". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 14: 33–40. Pledge, N.S. (1977)...
Propalorchestes novaculacephalus. The genus is probably ancestral to Palorchestes and resembles Ngapakaldia, another palorchestid that existed during the...
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known marsupial) Hulitherium tomasetti Maokopia ronaldi Zygomaturus Palorchestes ("marsupial tapir") Various members of Vombatidae Lasiorhinus angustidens...
Australian marsupials such as the Diprotodon, Zygomaturus, Nototherium, or Palorchestes. This connection was first formally made by Dr George Bennett of the...
lost niches of extinct Australian megafauna, such as Diprotodon and Palorchestes, and may contribute to decline wildfires; a theory similar in a way to...
diversity of modern and giant koala and wombat species, the tapir-like Palorchestes, the giant turtle Meiolania, and the giant bird Genyornis. Diprotodon...
been associated with extinct marsupial megafauna such as Zygomaturus or Palorchestes. When shown fossil remains, some Aboriginal peoples identified them as...
lost niches of extinct Australian megafauna including Diprotodon and Palorchestes, where this may also apply for others (such as cattles and horses and...
7 in) tall and weighing up to 2,786 kg (6,142 lb). Fellow vombatiform Palorchestes azael was similar in length being around 2.5 m (8.2 ft), with body mass...
as well as many extinct members such as Diprotodon, Zygomaturus, and Palorchestes Almost all extant Macropodiformes, such as: Kangaroos, wallabies, and...
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