A discussion of the large extinct rodents of Mootwingee National Park, western New South Wales

Abstract

Four large rodent species (Greater Stick-nest Rat Leporillus conditor, Long-tailed Hopping-mouse Notomys longicaudatus. Plains Rat Pseudomys australis and Long-haired Rat Rattus villosissimus) have been identified among the subfossil remains collected at Mootwingee National Park, western New South Wales. These records are at the periphery of the published distributions for most of the species and represent an addition to the fauna recorded for the Mootwingee area.