Propleopus

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Propleopus
Temporal range: 4.3–0.055 Ma
Pliocene - Pleistocene
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Propleopus

Longman, 1924
Species
  • P. chillagoensis Archer et al., 1978
  • P. oscillans (De Vis, 1888) (type species)
  • P. wellingtonensis Archer & Flannery, 1985

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Propleopus is an extinct genus of marsupials. Three species are known, P. chillagoensis from the Plio-Pleistocene, P. oscillans, and P. wellingtonensis[1] from the Pleistocene. In contrast to most other kangaroos, and similar to its small extant relative, the musky rat-kangaroo, it was probably omnivorous.

References

  1. Stephen Wroe, 1996. An Investigation of Phylogeny in the Giant Extinct Rat Kangaroo Ekaltadeta (Propleopinae, Potoroidae, Marsupialia). Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 70, No. 4. (Jul., 1996), pp. 681-690.

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