Sthenurus
Sthenurus est genus animalium exstinctorum familiae Macropodidarum, quae in Australia olim vixerunt. Ossa in loco archaeologico Cuddie Springs Novae Cambriae Australis atque alibi reperta sunt.

De nomine 
Sthenurus ('cui cauda robusta est') est nomen zoologicum a Ricardo Owen anno 1873 compositum ex verbis Graecis σθένος 'vis, robur' et οὖρος 'cauda'.

Notae

Bibliographia 
 Long, J., Archer, M., Flannery, T., Hand, S. 2002. Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution. Johns Hopkins University Press.  pp 157–196. ISBN 0-8018-7223-5
 Prideaux, G. 2004. "Systematics and Evolution of the Sthenurine Kangaroos". UC Publications in Geological Sciences. Paper vol 146.
 
 Sears, K. E. 2005. "Role of development in the evolution of the scapula of the giant sthenurine kangaroos (Macropodidae: Sthenurinae)." Journal of Morphology vol. 265: 226–236

Nexus externi

Pinacotheca

Marsupialia exstincta
Macropodidae
Taxa Owen
Taxa 1873