Palorchestes
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Palorchestes is an extinct genus of large terrestrial, herbivorous Australian marsupial of the family Palorchestidae, living from the Miocene through to the Late Pleistocene. Like other palorchestids,
Palorchestes azael fossil marsupial articulated skull and mandibles p 216490 1330195 large
An outdated reconstruction of P. azael with a trunk
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Diprotodon optatum
Diprotodontia
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Diprotodontia is the largest extant order of marsupials, with about 155 species, including the kangaroos, wallabies, possums, koala, wombats, and many others. Extinct diprotodonts include the hippopot
Palorchestes
…but a diprotodontid. Owen's description as a giant kangaroo was revised in 1958 by Jack T. Woods of the Queensland Museum, allying the genus to the Diprotodontia order. Another genus is probably ancestral to these species, thus named Propalorchestes; it shared some characteristics of the molars, but had shorter…
The prominent mandibular central incisors characteristic of the diprotodonts are evident in this Kangaroo Island western grey kangaroo (Macropus fuliginosus fuliginosus)