| Neohelos Temporal range: Miocene,
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| Skull of Neohelos stirtoni at the Melbourne Museum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | †Diprotodontidae |
| Subfamily: | †Zygomaturinae |
| Genus: | †Neohelos Stirton, 1967 |
| Type species | |
| Neohelos tirarensis Stirton, 1967
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| Species | |
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N. tirarensis Stirton, 1967 | |
Neohelos is an extinct diprotodontid marsupial, that lived from the early to middle-Miocene. There are four species assigned to this genus, Neohelos tirarensis, the type species, N. stirtoni, N. solus and N. davidridei. N. davidridei is the most derived species of the genus, and its premolar morphology shows that it is structurally and ancestor of the genus Kolopsis. All four species are from the Bullock Creek in the Northern Territory and Riversleigh of Australia.
- ^ Murray, P.; Megirian, D.; Rich, T.; Plane, M.; Vickers-Rich, Patricia (December 2000). "Neohelos stirtoni, a new species of Zygomaturinae (Diprotodonta: Marsupialia) from the mid-Tertiary of the Northern Territory, Australia". Records of the Queen Victoria Museum Launceston. 105: 1–47.