Propleopus
Propleopus is an extinct genus of marsupials. The genus contains three species: P. chillagoensis from the Plio-Pleistocene, and P. oscillans and P. wellingtonensis from the Pleistocene.
The type species Propleopus oscillans was first named under the genus Triclis by Charles Walter [De Vis] in 1888. Because the German entomologist Hermann Loew had already named the genus Triclis for a robber fly in 1851, Albert [Heber Longman] named a replacement name Propleopus in 1924, combining the prefix pró with pleopus, the latter in reference to the junior synonym of Hypsiprymnodon moschatus: Pleopus nudicaudatus named by Richard Owen in 1877. In 1978 and 1985, Archer and colleagues named two more species, P. chillagoensis and P. wellingtonensis, and provided a taxonomic revision of the genus.
Description
In contrast to most other kangaroos, and similar to their small extant relative, the musky rat-kangaroo, they were probably omnivorous and quadrupedal. Propleopus is estimated to have weighed around.