Macropus piltonensis Bartholomai, 1975
Pilton kangaroo (proposed)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Possibly a nomen dubium.
Conservation Status
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Australia
Anatomy & Morphology
It weighed an estimated 30kg (Johnson & Prideaux, 2004:557; Johnson, 2006:18).
Biology & Ecology
It ate grass (Johnson, 2006:18).
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Bartholomai, A. (1975). The genus Macropus Shaw (Marsupialia; Macropodidae) in the upper Cainozoic deposits of Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 17(2): 195-235.
Other references:
Johnson, Chris N. (2006). Australia's Mammal Extinctions: A 50 000 Year History. Port Melbourne, Victoria: Cambridge University Press. x + 278 pp. [p. 18]
Johnson, Chris N. and Prideaux, Gavin J. (2004). Extinctions of herbivorous mammals in the late Pleistocene of Australia in relation to their feeding ecology: no evidence for environmental change as cause of extinction. Australian Ecology 29: 553-557. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-9993.2004.01389.x