Protemnodon otibandus Plane, 1967
Giant wallaby, Otibanda wallaby (proposed)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Distribution
New Guinea
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Plane, Michael Dudley. (1967). Stratigraphy and Vertebrate Fauna of the Otibanda Formation, New Guinea. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics 86: 1-69.
Other references:
Jones, Billie, Janis, Christine and Rayfield, Emily. (2020). Limb proportions indicate Protemnodon’s locomotion was divergent from modern large macropodines. Poster presentation (abstract), p. 46. In: Progressive Palaeontology 2020 Abstract Booklet.
Mahoney, J. A. and Ride, W. D. L. (1975). Index to the genera and species of fossil Mammalia described from Australia and New Guinea between 1838 and 1968. Western Australian Museum Special Publication 6: 1-250.
Plane, Michael Dudley. (1976). The occurrence of [i]Thylacinus[/i] in Tertiary rocks from Papua New Guinea. Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources Journal of Geology and Geophysics 1(1): 78-79.
Stirton, R. A. (1963). A Review of the Macropodid Genus Protemnodon. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 44: 97-162. [pp. 97-161?]