Australian Taxa

Australian Taxa
This is a list of all known species that occurred on the mainland of Australia (including Tasmania and New Guinea, which were connected to the mainland during the ice ages) that went globally extinct in the past 50.000 years.

Also see: Island Taxa for other island species & Mainland Taxa for species from America & Afro-Eurasia

Diprotodontia

 * 1) Diprotodon optatum
 * 2) Zygomaturus trilobus
 * 3) Palorchestes azael
 * 4) Thylacoleo carnifex
 * 5) Euryzygoma dunense
 * 6) Phascolarctos stirtoni
 * 7) Ramsayia magna
 * 8) Vombatus hacketti
 * 9) Phascolonus gigas
 * 10) Warendja wakefieldi
 * 11) Protemnodon anak
 * 12) Protemnodon brehu
 * 13) Protemnodon hopei
 * 14) Simosthenurus occidentalis
 * 15) Simosthenurus maddocki
 * 16) Procoptodon browneorum
 * 17) Procoptodon gilli
 * 18) Procoptodon mccoyi
 * 19) Procoptodon oreas
 * 20) Procoptodon pusio
 * 21) Procoptodon rapha
 * 22) Procoptodon williamsi
 * 23) Procoptodon goliah
 * 24) Macropus greyi
 * 25) Lagorchestes leporides
 * 26) Lagorchestes asomatus
 * 27) Onychogalea lunata
 * 28) Caloprymnus campestris
 * 29) Potorous platyops
 * 30) Bettongia pusilla

Didelphimorphia - Opossums

 * 1) Cryptonanus ignitus