The partial skeleton remains were discovered at the Australian Wildlife Conservancy's Kalamurina Station in northern South Australia in 2017.
Large animals, like elephants and rhinoceroses, are digitigrades, as they walk on the tips of their toes and do not touch the ground with their heels. An, on the other hand, was most likely a plantigrade with its heels entirely on the ground to distribute weight while walking, similar to humans.
These locomotory adaptations would have allowed the creature to travel long distances back then. As per the authors, these footpad adaptations occurred at a time when Australia boasted dry conditions with more grasslands and open habitats. This likely made theThey also compared the remains to the diprotodontid family's earlier relatives, which included some of the largest four-legged herbivores marsupials.
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