Protemnodon sp. nov. 'Lowland New Guinea'
Lowland wallaby
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Although reported as a dp3 of a likely undescribed Protemnodon sp. by (Koungoulos et al., 2024), it is probably an m1 of the already described P. tumbuna (Kerr et al., 2024:194).
Conservation Status
Extinct if distinct (see above) (Koungoulos et al., 2024; but see Kerr et al., 2024:194)
Last record: Late Pleistocene (Koungoulos et al., 2024)
Distribution & Habitat
New Guinea
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
PM 26591 (Koungoulos et al., 2024)
Media
References
Kerr, Isaac A. R., Camens, Aaron B., van Zoelen, Jacob D., Worthy, Trevor H. and Prideaux, Gavin J. (2024). Systematics and palaeobiology of kangaroos of the late Cenozoic genus Protemnodon (Marsupialia, Macropodidae). Megataxa 11(1): 1-261. https://doi.org/10.11646/megataxa.11.1.1
Koungoulos, Loukas G., Flannery, Timothy F. and O’Connor, S. (2024). First record of Protemnodon (Macropodidae: Marsupialia) from Pleistocene lowland New Guinea. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2024.2304340
Lemoine, Rhys Taylor, Buitenwerf, Robert, Faurby, Sören and Svenning, Jens-Christian. (2025). Phylogenetic Evidence Supports the Effect of Traits on Late-Quaternary Megafauna Extinction in the Context of Human Activity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 34(7): e70078. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70078 [Supporting Information: Data S1]