Simosthenurus

Simosthenurus

Taxobox
name = "Simosthenurus"


image_width = 230 px
fossil_range = Pleistocene
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
infraclassis = Marsupialia
ordo = Diprotodontia
familia = Macropodidae
subfamilia = Sthenurinae
genus = "Simosthenurus"
genus_authority = Tedford, 1966
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Simosthenurus maddocki"
"Simosthenurus occidentalis"

"Simosthenurus" is a genus of megafaunal macropods that existed in Australia in the Pleistocene. The members of the genus are large, "Simosthenurus occidentalis" weighed over 118 kilograms. [cite journal | author = Helgen, K.M., Wells, R.T., Kear, B.P., Gerdtz, W.R., and Flannery, T.F. | year = 2006 | title = Ecological and evolutionary significance of sizes of giant extinct kangaroos | journal = Australian Journal of Zoology | volume = 54 | pages = 293–303 | doi = 10.1071/ZO05077]

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