Dorcopsoides | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Diprotodontia |
Family: | Macropodidae |
Genus: | †
Dorcopsoides Woodburne, 1967 |
Species: | †D. fossilis
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Binomial name | |
†Dorcopsoides fossilis Woodburne, 1967
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Dorcopsoides is a genus of extinct species of kangaroo from the Pliocene of Australia. [1]
Dorcopsoides was described in 1967 from the well-preserved lower jaw, skull fragments and occipital found in the Upper Miocene Alcoota Fossil Beds north-east of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. It was part of the Alcoota local fauna, which also included zygomaturine diprotodonts, a type of mihirung ( Ilbandornis), a crocodile ( Baru) and the giant thylacine, Thylacinus potens. [2]
It was about the size of a gray and black four-eyed opossum. The generic name (Dorcopsoides) indicates a resemblance to forest wallabies ( Dorcopsis) now living in New Guinea and neighboring islands. [3]
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