• The Macropodidae are an extant family of marsupial with the distinction of the ability to move bipedally on the hind legs, sometimes by jumping, as well...
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    Macropodidae is a family of marsupials that includes kangaroos, wallabies, tree-kangaroos, wallaroos, pademelons, quokkas, and several other groups. These...
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    PMID 28510900. Rofe RH (December 1978). "G-banded chromosomes and the evolution of macropodidae". Australian Mammalogy. 2: 50–63. doi:10.1071/AM78007. ISSN 0310-0049...
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    Tim Flannery (category Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science)
    fossil records of Phalangeridae and Macropodidae. While mammal curator at the Australian Museum, he undertook a survey of the mammals of Melanesia, where...
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    numbers. For instance, members of the Macropodidae family, including kangaroos and wallabies, have a dental formula of 3/1 – (0 or 1)/0 – 2/2 – 4/4. Many...
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    Macropus (category Marsupials of Australia)
    Macropus is a marsupial genus in the family Macropodidae. It has two extant species of large terrestrial kangaroos. The term is derived from the Ancient...
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    Notamacropus (category Marsupials of Australia)
    Notamacropus is a genus of small marsupials in the family Macropodidae, commonly known as wallabies (among other species). The term is derived from the...
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    Kangaroos are marsupials from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning "large foot"). In common use the term is used to describe the largest species...
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    Protemnodon (category Pliocene mammals of Australia)
    "A new genus of kangaroo (Marsupialia, Macropodidae) from the late Pleistocene of Papua New Guinea". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia...
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    subfamily within the marsupial family Macropodidae, known as short-faced kangaroos or sthenurine kangaroos. No members of this subfamily are extant today,...
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