Protemnodon

Protemnodon[1]
Temporal range: Pliocene - Late Pleistocene
Skull of Protemnodon anak at the Melbourne Museum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Macropodidae
Subfamily: Macropodinae
Genus: Protemnodon
Owen, 1874
Type species
Protemnodon anak
Owen, 1874
Species
  • P. anak
    Owen, 1874
  • P. otibandus
    Plane, 1967
  • P. snewini
    Bartholomai, 1978
  • P. tumbuna
    Flannery et al., 1983
  • P. mamkurra
    Kerr et al., 2024
  • P. viator
    Kerr et al., 2024
  • P. dawsonae
    Kerr et al., 2024

Protemnodon is an extinct genus of megafaunal macropodids that existed in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea in the Pliocene and Pleistocene. Members of this genus are also called giant kangaroos.

  1. ^ Haaramo, M. (20 December 2004). "Mikko's Phylogeny Archive: Macropodidae - kenguroos". Archived from the original on 31 March 2007. Retrieved 15 March 2007.

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