Propleopus

Propleopus Temporal range: 4.3–0.055 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Pliocene - Pleistocene

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Australidelphia
Family:	Hypsiprymnodontidae
Subfamily:	Propleoninae
Genus:	Propleopus Longman, 1924
Species
P. chillagoensis Archer et al., 1978 P. oscillans (De Vis, 1888) (type species) P. wellingtonensis Archer & Flannery, 1985

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

↑ 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.

John A. Long et al.: Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2003, ISBN 0-8018-7223-5.
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THE GIANT RAT-KANGAROO PROPLEOPUS OSCILLANS (DE VIS)

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