Hulitherium
Name:
Hulitherium
(Huli beast).
Phonetic: Hu-le-fee-re-um.
Named By: Flannery & Plane - 1986.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia,
Marsupialia, Diprotodontia, Vombatiformes, Zygomaturidae
Species: H. tomasetti
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Roughly estimated at about 1 meter high at
the shoulder, and about 2 meters long.
Known locations: New Guinea.
Time period: Pleistocene.
Fossil representation: Almost complete skull,
lower jaw, vertebrae and a humerus (upper arm bone).
Hulitherium is a genus of diprotodont wombat that lived in New guinea during the Pleistocene. Not much is known about Hulitherium, though the arm structure suggests that this genus was significantly more mobile than other diprotodonts.
Further reading
- A new late Pleistocene
diprotodontid (Marsupialia) from Pureni, Southern Highlands Province,
Papua New Guinea. - BMR Journal of Australian Geology & Geophysics.
10: 65–76. - T. F. Flannery - 1986.
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