Lagorchestes
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| Lagorchestes[1] Temporal range: Recent[2]
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Lagorchestes
Gould, 1841
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Lagorchestes is a genus containing all but one of the species referred to as hare-wallabies. It has four species, two of which are extinct:
- †Lake Mackay hare-wallaby, Lagorchestes asomatus (extinct)
- Spectacled hare-wallaby, Lagorchestes conspicillatus
- Rufous hare-wallaby, Lagorchestes hirsutus
- †Eastern hare-wallaby, Lagorchestes leporides (extinct)
The oldest known fossil of Lagorchestes is an 11,000-year-old one of the extant spectacled hare-wallaby.[2]
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