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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | Macropodidae |
| Genus: | † Dorcopsoides Woodburne, 1967 |
| Type species | |
| †Dorcopsoides fossilis Woodburne, 1967 | |
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Dorcopsoides is a genus of extinct kangaroo from the Late Miocene of Australia and Late Pliocene of Papua New Guinea. [2] [3]
The genus Dorcopsoides was described in 1967 from a 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 . [4]
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. [5]
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