†Propleopus wellingtonensis Archer and Flannery 1985 (diprotodont marsupial)
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Full reference: M. Archer and T. Flannery. 1985. Revision of the Extinct Gigantic Rat Kangaroos (Potoroidae: Marsupialia), with Description of a New Miocene Genus and Species and a New Pleistocene Species of Propleopus. Journal of Paleontology 59(6):1331-1349
Belongs to Propleopus according to Archer and Flannery 1985
Sister taxa: Propleopus chillagoensis, Propleopus oscillans
Type specimen: UCMP 45171, a mandible (right dentary fragment with alveolus for the I1, roots of P3 and M2-5). Its type locality is Bone Cove, which is in a Pleistocene terrestrial horizon in Australia.
Ecology: scansorial omnivore
Distribution: found only at Bone Cove
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