Giant kangaroo

Protemnodon Temporal range: Pleistocene
Artist's conception, Protemnodon anak
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Marsupialia
Order:	Diprotodontia
Family:	Macropodidae
Subfamily:	Macropodinae
Genus:	†Protemnodon Owen, 1873
Paleospecies
†P. otibandus †P. buloloensis †P. hopei †P. tumbuna †P. nombe † †P. anak †P. antaeus †P. goliah †P. parvus

†P. otibandus
†P. buloloensis
†P. hopei
†P. tumbuna
†P. nombe
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†P. anak
†P. antaeus
†P. goliah
†P. parvus

Protemnodon is a genus of megafaunal macropods that existed in Australia, Tasmania, and Papua New Guinea in the . Based on fossil evidence, Protemnodon is thought to have been physically similar to wallabies, but far larger; Protemnodon hopei was the smallest in the genus weighing about 45 kg, the other species all weighed over 110 kg. Recent analysis of mtDNA extracted from fossils indicates that Protemnodon was closely related to Macropus.

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