Fossil Uromys (Rodentia: Murinae) from central Queensland, with a description of a new Middle Pleistocene species

The first fossil species of Uromys (Giant Naked-tailed Rats) is described, as well as the southern-most records of the genus based on palaeontological data. Uromys aplini sp. nov. lived during the Middle Pleistocene in the area around Mount Etna, eastern central Queensland, but was probably driven extinct by climate-mediated habitat loss sometime after 205 ka but before c. 90 ka. A second species, the extant U. caudimaculatus, occurred in the...