at two sites examined a century later.The appearance in the fossil fauna of eastern Queensland sites demonstrates the replacement of rainforest communities with the open grassy habitat favoured by this genus during the later Pleistocene. A survey of mammal fauna in the northeast of South Australia uncovered a fragment in an owl pellet buried beneath sediments.

Explorer Samuel Albert White was shown the tracks of the animal in 1921 and gained information on its habitat, being found on stony