Kingdom Animalia Class Mammalia Suborder Macropodiformes Rank Species | Phylum Chordata Order Diprotodontia Family Macropodidae | |
Similar Macropus titan, Euryzygoma, Nototherium, Phascolonus, Propleopus | ||
Macropus pearsoni is an extinct Australian vertebrate species belonging to the family Macropodidae, and the same genus Macropus as extant kangaroos. M. pearsoni lived during the Pleistocene. It is known from fossil mandibles collected from Pleistocene beds from the Darling Downs in New South Wales, Lake Kanunka in northeastern South Australia, and Cape York Peninsula.
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