Euryzygoma
Extinct genus of marsupials
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Euryzygoma is an extinct genus of marsupial which inhabited humid eucalyptus forests in Queensland and New South Wales during the Pliocene of Australia.[1][2] Euryzygoma is believed to have weighed around 500 kg,[3] and differed from other diprotodontids in having unusual, flaring cheekbones that may have been used either for storing food or for sexual display.[4] Euryzygoma is thought to be the ancestral genus from which Diprotodon evolved.[5]
| Euryzygoma Temporal range: Pliocene | |
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| Life reconstruction of Euryzygoma dunense | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | †Diprotodontidae |
| Genus: | †Euryzygoma Longman, 1921 |
| Species: | †E. dunense |
| Binomial name | |
| †Euryzygoma dunense De Vis, 1888 | |
