Protemnodon
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.
| Protemnodon Temporal range: Pliocene - Late Pleistocene | |
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| Skull of Protemnodon anak at the Melbourne Museum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | Macropodidae |
| Subfamily: | Lagostrophinae |
| Genus: | †Protemnodon Owen, 1874 |
| Type species | |
| †Protemnodon anak Owen, 1874 | |
| Paleospecies | |
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