†subfamily Propleopinae Archer and Flannery 1985 (diprotodont marsupial)

Mammalia - Diprotodontia

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

Parent taxon: Macropodoidea according to G. J. Prideaux 2004

See also Archer and Flannery 1985

Sister taxa: Balbaridae, Balbarinae, Bulungamayinae, Hypsiprymnodontidae, Ngamaroo, Sthenurinae

Subtaxa: Ekaltadeta Jackmahoneya Propleopus

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Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (7 collections)

• Pliocene of Australia (2)

• Miocene of Australia (2)

Total: 11 collections including 12 occurrences

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