Bohra Flannery & Szalay 1982

Bohra Flannery & Szalay, 1982 Type species. Bohra paulae Flannery & Szalay, 1982. Revised diagnosis. Species of Bohra are distinguished from those of Dendrolagus based on the following craniodental features: larger cheek teeth relative to the size of the cranium; higher-crowned upper incisors; narrower P3, which lacks a large, distinct posterobuccal accessory cusp and deep cleft posterior to the anterior cusp of the main crest; relatively narrower molars, with a better developed postparacrista and no parametacristid. All known species of Bohra are also larger than those of Dendrolagus. Bohra most closely resembles Dorcopsis and Watutia in molar morphology, but the premetacristid, cristid obliqua and postprotocrista are less developed than in Dorcopsis, and the molars are narrower relative to their length than in Watutia. Species of Bohra may be distinguished from those of Dendrolagus on the basis of the following postcranial features: slightly less robust humerus, with a more pronounced pectoral crest, a slightly less developed deltoid tubercle, and a larger, more projecting medial epicondyle; relatively more robust femoral diaphysis; less sinuous tibial diaphysis with a relatively longer distal fibular facet; less obliquely orientated trochlear crests and groove on the talus; shorter and more robust metatarsals IV and V. Etymology. According to a legend of the Euahlayi people of inland eastern Australia, Bohra was a kangaroo that went about on four limbs and possessed canines before men removed them (Parker 1953). Flannery & Szalay (1982) considered this evocative of extant tree-kangaroos, which have relatively more equally proportioned fore- and hindlimbs and retain small canines. They did not designate a gender, but with the naming of B. illuminata, Prideaux & Warburton (2008) inferred that it was feminine. Temporal and geographic distribution. Late Pliocene of southeastern Queensland, central eastern New South Wales, northern South Australia, and Papua New Guinea. Early and/or middle Pleistocene of central eastern New South Wales and southern South Australia. Middle Pleistocene of eastern Queensland, southeastern Western Australia and northern South Australia. See Figure 1.
Published as part of Prideaux, Gavin J. & Warburton, Natalie M., 2023, A review of the late Cenozoic genus Bohra (Diprotodontia: Macropodidae) and the evolution of tree-kangaroos, pp. 1-95 in Zootaxa 5299 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5299.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8012666
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