Protemnodon

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Protemnodon[1] Fossil range: Pleistocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Infraclass: Marsupialia Order: Diprotodontia Family: Macropodidae Subfamily: Macropodinae Genus: Protemnodon Owen, 1873
Paleospecies
†P. otibandus †P. buloloensis †P. hopei †P. tumbuna †P. nombe †P. snewiki †P. anak †P. antaeus †P. goliah †P. parvus

Protemnodon is an genus of megafaunal macropods that existed in Australia in the Pleistocene. Based on fossil evidence it is though that the four known Protemnodon were physically similar to wallabies but far larger; Protemnodon hopei was the smallest in the genus weighing about 45 kilograms, the three other species all weighed over 110 kg.^[2]

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