Propleopus

Propleopus
Temporal range: 4.3–0.055 Ma
↓
 Pliocene - Pleistocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Hypsiprymnodontidae
Genus: †Propleopus
Longman, 1924[1]
Type species
Triclas oscillans
De Vis, 1888[2]

Propleopus is an extinct genus of marsupials. Three species are known: P. chillagoensis from the Plio-Pleistocene, and P. oscillans and P. wellingtonensis[3] from the Pleistocene. In contrast to most other kangaroos, and similar to their small extant relative, the musky rat-kangaroo, they were probably omnivorous.

The species assigned to this genus are:

  • Propleopus chillagoensis Archer et al., 1978
  • Propleopus oscillans (De Vis, 1888) (type species)
  • Propleopus wellingtonensis (Archer & Flannery, 1985)[4]
  1. ^ Longman, Heber A. (1924). "Some Queensland fossil vertebrates". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 8: 16–28.
  2. ^ De Vis, C.W. (1888). "On an extinct genus of the marsupials allied to Hypsiprymnodon". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 13. Linnean Society of New South Wales.: 5–8.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Wroe1996 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Archer1985 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).