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Propleopus

Propleopus
Temporal range: 4.3–0.055 Ma
Pliocene -
Propleopus oscillans.jpg
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Australidelphia
Family: Hypsiprymnodontidae
Subfamily: Propleoninae
Genus: Propleopus
Longman, 1924
Species
  • P. chillagoensis Archer et al., 1978
  • P. oscillans (De Vis, 1888) (type species)
  • P. wellingtonensis Archer & Flannery, 1985

Propleopus is an extinct genus of marsupials. Three species are known, P. chillagoensis from the , P. oscillans, and P. wellingtonensis from the . In contrast to most other kangaroos, and similar to its small extant relative, the musky rat-kangaroo, it was probably omnivorous.


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