Editing Wombat (section)

==Evolution and taxonomy==
Though genetic studies of the Vombatidae have been undertaken, evolution of the family is not well understood. Wombats are estimated to have diverged from other Australian marsupials relatively early, as long as 40 million years ago, while some estimates place divergence at around 25&nbsp;million years.<ref name="Triggs2009">{{cite book|author=Barbara Triggs|title=Wombats|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_yxSd03pQdsC&pg=PA10|date=13 July 2009|publisher=Csiro Publishing|isbn=978-0-643-09986-9}}</ref>{{rp|10–}} Some prehistoric wombat genera greatly exceeded modern wombats in size. The largest known wombat, ''[[Phascolonus]]'', which went extinct approximately 40,000 years ago,<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hocknull |first1=Scott A. |last2=Lewis |first2=Richard |last3=Arnold |first3=Lee J. |last4=Pietsch |first4=Tim |last5=Joannes-Boyau |first5=Renaud |last6=Price |first6=Gilbert J. |last7=Moss |first7=Patrick |last8=Wood |first8=Rachel |last9=Dosseto |first9=Anthony |last10=Louys |first10=Julien |last11=Olley |first11=Jon |last12=Lawrence |first12=Rochelle A. |date=2020-05-18 |title=Extinction of eastern Sahul megafauna coincides with sustained environmental deterioration |journal=Nature Communications |language=en |volume=11 |issue=1 |page=2250 |doi=10.1038/s41467-020-15785-w |issn=2041-1723 |pmc=7231803 |pmid=32418985|bibcode=2020NatCo..11.2250H }}</ref> is estimated to have had a body mass of up to {{Convert|360|kg|lb}}.<ref name="Louys">{{Cite journal |last1=Louys |first1=Julien |last2=Duval |first2=Mathieu |last3=Beck |first3=Robin M. D. |last4=Pease |first4=Eleanor |last5=Sobbe |first5=Ian |last6=Sands |first6=Noel |last7=Price |first7=Gilbert J. |date=November 2022 |editor-last=Hautier |editor-first=Lionel |title=Cranial remains of ''Ramsayia magna'' from the Late Pleistocene of Australia and the evolution of gigantism in wombats (Marsupialia, Vombatidae) |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.1475 |journal=Papers in Palaeontology |language=en |volume=8 |issue=6 |doi=10.1002/spp2.1475 |bibcode=2022PPal....8E1475L |hdl=10072/420259 |s2cid=254622473 |issn=2056-2799|hdl-access=free }}</ref>