Protemnodon

Protemnodon is an extinct genus of megafaunal macropodids that existed in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea in the Pliocene, Pleistocene, and Holocene. Members of this genus are also called giant kangaroos.

Protemnodon

Paleocolour · CC0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MacropodinaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Macropodidae
Life habit
saltatorialPBDB, for Macropodidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 3.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 67 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 67 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 19 of 67 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 47 of 67 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 7 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 7 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 31 occurrences3.6 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

67 occurrences of Protemnodon on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

67 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

8 formations

Otibanda — 7.25°S, 146.50°EOtibanda — 7.21°N, 146.75°ED Clay — 35.70°S, 144.83°EGrange Burn — 37.72°S, 141.93°EMoorna — 34.12°S, 141.65°EWhaler's Bluff — 38.36°S, 141.60°EJemmys Point — 37.82°S, 148.13°ENelson Bay — 38.60°S, 141.58°EAllingham — 19.72°S, 145.60°E

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The named rock units Protemnodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 53 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protemnodon and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Protemnodon and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

387 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Protemnodon, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

41 references

Each of the 67 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 28 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Protemnodon

Credit
Paleocolour
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Protemnodon brehus · sama:paleontology:13027

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMacropodinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Owen 1874