Propleopus
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| Propleopus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Division: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Australidelphia |
| Family: | Macropodidae |
| Genus: | Propleopus Longman, 1924 |
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Propleopus is an extinct genus of marsupial. Two species are known, P. chillagoensis from the Plio-Pleistocene and P. oscillans from the Pleistocene. In contrast to most other kangaroos, and similar to its small extant relative, the Musky Rat-kangaroo, it was probably omnivorous.
[edit] References
- John A. Long et al.: Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2003, ISBN 0-8018-7223-5.
- "Propleopus (Genus)". ZipcodeZoo.com. http://zipcodezoo.com/Key/Animalia/Propleopus_Genus.asp.
- THE GIANT RAT-KANGAROO PROPLEOPUS OSCILLANS (DE VIS)
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