2024
DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.11.1.1
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Systematics and palaeobiology of kangaroos of the late Cenozoic genus Protemnodon (Marsupialia, Macropodidae)

ISAAC A.R. KERR,
AARON B. CAMENS,
JACOB D. VAN ZOELEN
et al.

Abstract: Species of the kangaroo genus Protemnodon were common members of late Cenozoic communities across Australia and New Guinea until their extinction in the late Pleistocene. However, since the genus was first raised 150 years ago, it has proven difficult to diagnose, as have the species allocated to it. This is due primarily to the incompleteness of the type material and a heavy reliance on cheek tooth size and slight variations in premolar form. Along with the rare association between cranial and postcranial mat… Show more

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“…The extinct (Pleistocene) medium-to-large macropodine Protemnodon viator (formerly P. brehus, see Kerr et al, 2024: this individual ~97 kg) is compared here with the similarly sized Late Miocene basal sthenurine, Hadronomas puckridgi (this individual ~73 kg). Protemnodon viator has long been considered to have similar locomotion to extant kangaroos, but its postcranial morphology is more indicative of quadrupedal bounding, although it was probably able to hop to some extent (Janis et al, 2023;Jones & Janis, under revision).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The extinct (Pleistocene) medium-to-large macropodine Protemnodon viator (formerly P. brehus, see Kerr et al, 2024: this individual ~97 kg) is compared here with the similarly sized Late Miocene basal sthenurine, Hadronomas puckridgi (this individual ~73 kg). Protemnodon viator has long been considered to have similar locomotion to extant kangaroos, but its postcranial morphology is more indicative of quadrupedal bounding, although it was probably able to hop to some extent (Janis et al, 2023;Jones & Janis, under revision).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%