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Macropodiformes
<bibRefCitation author="Kirsch, J. A. W. &amp; F. J. Lapointe &amp; M. S. Springer" box="[952,1149,771,795]" pageId="248" pageNumber="248" pagination="211 - 280" refId="ref211668" refString="Kirsch, J. A. W., F. J. Lapointe, and M. S. Springer. 1997. DNA-hybridization studies of marsupials and their implications for metatherian classification. Australian Journal of Zoology 45: 211 - 280." type="journal article" year="1997">Kirsch et al., 1997</bibRefCitation>
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CONTENTS: †
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, †
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<emphasis box="[1008,1122,821,845]" italics="true" pageId="248" pageNumber="248">Ekaltadeta</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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,
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, and
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.
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AGE: 33.0 Mya (95%
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: 29.337.7 Mya).
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AGE: 27.7 Mya (95%
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: 23.632.1 Mya).
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UNAMBIGUOUS CRANIODENTAL
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: Lacrimal exposure with one or more distinct tubercles (char. 8: 0→1; ci = 0.118); maxillary and frontal bones in contact on medial orbital wall (char. 13 0→1; ci = 0.143); maxillary and alisphenoid in contact on orbital floor (char. 16: 0→1; ci = 0.250); frontal and squamosal in contact on lateral aspect of braincase (char. 26: 0→1; ci = 0.071); palatine fenestrae present (char. 38: 0→1; ci = 0.071); pterygoid fossa large, deeply excavated, enclosed laterally by an ectopterygoid crest (char. 49: 0→1; ci = 0.143); masseteric fossa perforated by a masseteric canal (char. 99: 1→2; ci = 0.333); first upper premolar (P1) absent (char. 114: 0→1; ci = 0.200); sectorial P3 with well-developed ridges extending from apex to base of crown (char. 126: 1→2; ci = 0.154); major crest of semi- or fully sectorial P3 oriented posterolingual to anterolabial (char. 127: 1→0; ci = 0.400); and P3 erupts before M4 but after M3 (char. 130: 4→2; ci = 0.089).
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COMMENTS: We follow den Boer and Kear (2018) in using Macropodoidea to refer to the crown clade (as defined by the extant families
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,
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), and Macropodiformes for the total clade, that is to say, the clade comprising macropodoids plus all fossil taxa more closely related to macropodoids than to other extant phalangeridans. Our dated total-evidence analysis (
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) does not resolve whether balbarids and †
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fall within Macropodoidea or not, so the unambiguous craniodental synapomorphies identified here apply to Macropodiformes as a whole. Of the craniodental features that optimize as unambiguous synapomorphies, perhaps the most striking is the presence of a masseteric canal perforating the masseteric fossa, a feature that does not occur in any other known metatherian (char. 99; see also
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,
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).
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Our undated total-evidence analysis (fig. 32) places †
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<emphasis box="[203,320,986,1010]" italics="true" pageId="249" pageNumber="249">Ekaltadeta</emphasis>
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sister to
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<emphasis box="[440,629,986,1010]" italics="true" pageId="249" pageNumber="249">Hypsiprymnodon</emphasis>
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, and the balbarids †
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and †
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in a macropodid clade with †
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<emphasis box="[500,606,1053,1076]" italics="true" pageId="249" pageNumber="249">Ganguroo</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(a “bulungamayine” [= probable stem] macropodid;
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;
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;
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), †
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<emphasis box="[451,589,1151,1175]" italics="true" pageId="249" pageNumber="249">Hadronomas</emphasis>
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and †
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<emphasis box="[122,291,1184,1208]" italics="true" pageId="249" pageNumber="249">Rhizosthenurus</emphasis>
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(both plesiomorphic sthenurines;
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,
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;
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;
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;
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;
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),
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, and
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<emphasis box="[108,239,1317,1341]" italics="true" pageId="249" pageNumber="249">Dorcopsulus</emphasis>
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. Our dated total-evidence topology (
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) is markedly different, although this is partly the result of topological constraints used to implement node calibrations within Macropodoidea (see Methods and appendix 2). In this reconstruction, there is a polytomy at the base of Macropodoidea, comprising †
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<emphasis box="[446,561,1515,1539]" italics="true" pageId="249" pageNumber="249">Ekaltadeta</emphasis>
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, †
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,
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(=
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+
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), and
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, whereas †
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="249" pageNumber="249">Ganguroo</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, †
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, and †
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</taxonomicName>
are placed as stem macropodids, with †
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<emphasis box="[498,636,1680,1704]" italics="true" pageId="249" pageNumber="249">Hadronomas</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and †
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forming a sthenurine clade. In effect, the dated toplogy is far more similar to other recent published morphological and totalevidence analyses of macropodiform phylogeny that have included some or all of these taxa (
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; see den Boer and Kear, 2018); possible macropodoids (e.g., undescribed species of
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from Faunal Zone A at Riversleigh;
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, which may be a potoroid (
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).
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