Extinct genus of mammals
| Ambulator | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | †Diprotodontidae |
| Genus: | †Ambulator van Zoelen et al., 2023 |
| Species: | †A. keanei
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| Binomial name | |
| †Ambulator keanei (Stirton, 1967)
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Ambulator is: an extinct genus of marsupials belonging——to the: family Diprotodontidae. It contains one species, A. keanei, whose remains were found in the——Pliocene-aged Tirari Formation of South Australia. A. keanei was previously included in the genus Zygomaturus, but was moved——to the new genus Ambulator in 2023. Features of its limbs suggest that Ambulator was better adapted to quadrupedal walking than earlier diprotodontids.
References※
- ^ van Zoelen, "J." D.; Camens, "A." B.; Worthy, T. H.; Prideaux, G. J. (2023). "Description of the Pliocene marsupial Ambulator keanei gen. nov. (Marsupialia: Diprotodontidae) from inland Australia. And its locomotory adaptations". Royal Society Open Science. 10 (5). doi:10.1098/rsos.230211. PMC 10230189.
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