†family Diprotodontidae Gill 1872 (diprotodont marsupial)

Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Diprotodontidae

Parent taxon: Diprotodontoidea according to R. M. D. Beck et al. 2020

See also Cope 1889, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Gadow 1898, Lydekker 1894, Mackness et al. 2015, Marshall 1974, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Pocock 1921

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Bematherium Brachalletes Chronozoon Diprotodon Diprotodontinae Euowenia Euryzygoma Koalemus Kolopsis Kolopsoides Meniscolophus Nototherium Plaisiodon Pyramios Raemeotherium Sthenmerus Zygomaturinae

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Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (74 collections), Papua New Guinea (3)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Australia (7), Papua New Guinea (1)

• Pliocene of Australia (17), New Caledonia (1), Papua New Guinea (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (2)

• Miocene to Holocene of Australia (1)

• Miocene of Australia (11)

• Oligocene of Australia (7)

Total: 125 collections including 150 occurrences

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