MammalBase - Accepted taxon: Vombatus ursinus

Accepted taxon: Vombatus ursinus
Taxon:	Vombatus ursinus
Rank:	Species
Higher Classification:	DIPROTODONTIA \| VOMBATIFORMES \| Vombatidae \| Vombatus
Reference:	Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), JHU Press, 2005.

Fig.1 - Ternary plot of the proximate analysis for the Vombatus ursinus diet.
CF (Crude Fibre) 24, ASH (Ash contents) 9, NFE (Nitrogen-Free-Extract) 53, CP (Crude Protein) 11, EE (Ether Extract) 4. See details for the calculations in Lintulaakso, K., Tatti, N. and Žliobaitė, I., 2022. Quantifying mammalian diets. Mammalian Biology, pp.1-15. [DOI]

Table 1. List of Diet Items for Vombatus ursinus.
TSN Complete name	Part	Ratio ^a.	Reference(s)
Poaceae	STEM	39.17	Damuth, J…
Cyperaceae	LEAF	21.67	Damuth, J…
Magnoliopsida	ROOT	14.17	Damuth, J…
Poaceae	ROOT	8.33	Hume,ID, …
Juncus	SHOOT	5.00	Grzimek,B…
Fungi	SHOOT	5.00	Nowak,R. …
Asparagaceae	LEAF	5.00	Damuth, J…
Magnoliopsida	STEM	1.67	Nowak,R. …

^a. Standardized values. See details for the calculations in Lintulaakso, K., Tatti, N. and Žliobaitė, I., 2022. Quantifying mammalian diets. Mammalian Biology, pp.1-15. [DOI]

Table 2. List of Standard Traits for Vombatus ursinus.
Trait	Selected Value	All Value(s)	Reference(s)
Dietary category: Eisenberg 1981	Herbivore-Grazer	Herbivore-Grazer	C. N. Joh…
Dietary category: Miljutin 2009	Herbivore	Herbivore	C. N. Joh…
Locomotion: Eisenberg 1981	Terrestrial	Terrestrial	Weisbecke…

Table 3. List of Standard Measurements for Vombatus ursinus.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	6	6	-	-	-	21,057	-	-	Engelman,…
Body Mass (BM)	nan	g	-	-	-	-	15,000	-	39,000	-	Freudenth…
Head-Body Length (HBL)	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	812	-	-	Engelman,…
Occipital condyle width (OCW)	nan	mm	6	6	-	-	-	40.64	-	-	Engelman,…

Table 4. List of other Measurements ^b. for Vombatus ursinus.
Measurement	Location	Unit	n Total	n Unknown	n Female	n Male	Min	Mean	Max	SD	Reference(s)
brainmass	nan	g	-	-	-	-	-	59	-	-	Engelman,…
skull_length	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	159	-	-	Engelman,…
femur circumference	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	52	-	-	Nelson, A…
femur diameter	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	15	-	-	Nelson, A…
humerus circumference	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	57	-	-	Nelson, A…
humerus diameter	nan	mm	-	-	-	-	-	15	-	-	Nelson, A…

^b. other Measurements. Source Measurements which are not listed on or mapped with the Standard Traits..

Table 5. List of Data Sources for Vombatus ursinus.
Taxon	Reference	Match	Status
Vombatus ursinus	Johnson,CN, 2004, Extinctions of herbivorous mammals in the late Pleistocene of Australia in relation to their feeding ecology: No evidence for environmental change as cause of extinction, Austral Ecology	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Vombatus ursinus	Turner,J., 2004, Mammals of Australia,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Vombatus ursinus	Hume,ID, 2005, Nutrition of marsupials in captivity, International Zoo Yearbook	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Vombatus ursinus	Damuth, J. 2010. ABSOLUT 6 a mammalian database compiled by the national center for ecological analysis and synthesis (NCEAS ) workshop on mammalian communities.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Vombatus ursinus	Nowak,R. M., 1991, Walker's mammals of the world,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Vombatus ursinus	Grzimek,B., 2003, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Mammals I-V,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Vombatus ursinus	Nowak,R. M., 1991, Walker's mammals of the world,	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Vombatus ursinus	Weisbecker, V., Beck, R.M., Guillerme, T., Harrington, A.R., Lange-Hodgson, L., Lee, M.S., Mardon, K. and Phillips, M.J., 2023. Multiple modes of inference reveal less phylogenetic signal in marsupial basicranial shape compared with the rest of the cranium. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 378(1880), p.20220085.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Vombatus ursinus	Engelman, R.K., 2022. Occipital condyle width (OCW) is a highly accurate predictor of body mass in therian mammals. BMC biology, 20(1), p.37.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Vombatus ursinus	DeMers, A.C., 2023. Functional Significance of the Mandible, Tooth Roots, and Tooth Crowns, and their Implications for Fossil Dietary Inference (Doctoral dissertation, The Ohio State University).	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Vombatus ursinus	Lundgren, E.J., Schowanek, S.D., Rowan, J., Middleton, O., Pedersen, R.Ø., Wallach, A.D., Ramp, D., Davis, M., Sandom, C.J. and Svenning, J.C., 2021. Functional traits of the world’s late Quaternary large-bodied avian and mammalian herbivores. Scientific data, 8(1), p.17.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Vombatus ursinus	Nelson, A., Engelman, R.K. and Croft, D.A., 2023. How to weigh a fossil mammal? South American notoungulates as a case study for estimating body mass in extinct clades. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 30(3), pp.773-809.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted
Vombatus ursinus	Freudenthal, M. and Martín-Suárez, E., 2013. Estimating body mass of fossil rodents. Scripta Geologica, 145, pp.1-513.	1: Exact Taxon match	Verified - Accepted

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