Progura campestris was named by Shute et al. (2017) [A species of megapode larger than any extant member of the Megapodiidae, with a tarsometatarsus conforming with Progura, but approximately one-third shorter than that of the type species, and characterized by the following features. (i) The fossa parahypotarsalis medialis is shallow and restricted to the first 25% of length. (ii) The medial margin of the shaft is thick, and lacks a shallow sulcus between it and the foramina vascularia–sulcus extensorius, lending the dorsal facies of the shaft a flat appearance in medial aspect. (iii) The midshaft region is plantarly convex. (iv) The shaft is robust (minimum width 10.1% of total length). (v) It lacks a deep depression for the impressio lig. collateralis medialis. (vi) The facet for metatarsal I measures around one-third of the width of the shaft (half the shaft width in P. gallinacea). (vii) In dorsal aspect, the rims of trochlea metatarsi III converge proximally.]. Its type specimen is WAM 15.9.5, a partial skeleton (associated remains of one adult individual, comprising the following elements: premaxilla, approximately 15 mm of the tip; right articular of mandible lacking t), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Leaena's Breath Cave, which is in a Pleistocene terrestrial horizon in Australia.