Propleopus

Propleopus Temporal range: 4.3–0.055 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Pliocene - Pleistocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Division:	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 Plio-Pleistocene, P. oscillans, and P. wellingtonensis^[1] from the Pleistocene. In contrast to most other kangaroos, and similar to its small extant relative, the musky rat-kangaroo, it was probably omnivorous.

References

1. Stephen Wroe, 1996. An Investigation of Phylogeny in the Giant Extinct Rat Kangaroo Ekaltadeta (Propleopinae, Potoroidae, Marsupialia). Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 70, No. 4. (Jul., 1996), pp. 681-690.

• 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.
• THE GIANT RAT-KANGAROO PROPLEOPUS OSCILLANS (DE VIS)