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Procoptodon williamsi Prideaux, 2004

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

 

Distribution

Australia

 

Anatomy & Morphology

It weighed an estimated 150kg (Johnson, 2006:19).

 

Biology & Ecology

It was a browser or mixed feeder (Johnson, 2006:19).

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Prideaux, Gavin J. (2004). Systematics and evolution of the sthenurine kangaroos. UC Publications in Geological Sciences, University of California Press 146: 1-623.

 

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. 19]

 

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