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  Vombatiformes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vombatiformes is one of the three suborders of the large marsupial order Diprotodontia.
"Vombatiformes" is neo-Latin for "wombat-shaped things", and took its name from its type family.
The suborder Vombatiformes, with its closely related members and their compact body form, contrasts with the other two diprotodont suborders, the Macropodiformes: kangaroos, wallabies and quokkas; and the Phalangeriformes: possums, including the gliders like the wrist-winged gliders.
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 Wombat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
They are not as easily seen as many animals, but leave ample evidence of their passage, treating fences as a minor inconvenience to be gone through or under.
Wombats, like all the larger living marsupials, are part of the Diprotodontia, which has two sub-orders: the large and diverse Phalangerida (kangaroos, possums, and relatives), and the Vombatiformes (which is the Latin for "wombat-shaped things").
Five of the seven known families are extinct, only the koala and the three species of wombat survive.
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 Diprotodontia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Many modern diprotodonts, however, are strictly terrestrial, and have extensive further adaptations to the feet to suit that lifestyle.
Until recently there were only two suborders in Diprotodontia; Vombatiformes which encompassed the wombats and koala and Phalangerida which contained all other families.
In addition, the six Phalangeriformes families are split into two superfamilies.
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 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 91037565
Publisher description for Postcranial descriptions of Ilaria and Ngapakaldia (Vombatiformes, Marsupialia) and the phylogeny of the vombatiforms based on postcranial morphology / Carol J. Munson.
The author describes the postcrania of the Miocene marsupials Ilaria illumidens and Ngapakaldia tedfordi and compares them with those of other vombatiforms and out-group marsupials.
A cladistic analysis of postcranial characters shows Ilaria to be most closely related to the wombats, primarily on the basis of the highly derived manus.
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 Find in a Library: Postcranial descriptions of Ilaria and Ngapakaldia (Vombatiformes, Marsupialia) and the phylogeny of ...
Find in a Library: Postcranial descriptions of Ilaria and Ngapakaldia (Vombatiformes, Marsupialia) and the phylogeny of the vombatiforms based on postcranial morphology
Postcranial descriptions of Ilaria and Ngapakaldia (Vombatiformes, Marsupialia) and the phylogeny of the vombatiforms based on postcranial morphology
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