Protemnodon bandharr Dawson et al. 1999 (kangaroo)

Mammalia - Theriamorpha - Macropodidae

Full reference: L. Dawson, J. Muirhead, and S. Wroe. 1999. The Big Sink local fauna; a lower Pliocene mammalian fauna from the Wellington Caves complex, Wellington, New South Wales. Records of the Western Australian Museum 57:265-290

Belongs to Protemnodon according to L. Dawson et al. 1999

Sister taxa: Protemnodon anak, Protemnodon brehus, Protemnodon buloloensis, Protemnodon chinchillaensis, Protemnodon devisi, Protemnodon hopei

Type specimen: AM F69830,, a mandible (right dentary with M4). Its type locality is Big Sink, Wellington Caves , which is in a Pliocene terrestrial breccia in Australia.

Ecology: saltatorial herbivore

Distribution: found only at Big Sink, Wellington Caves

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.