Nototherium ("Southern Beast") is an extinct genus of diprotodontid marsupial from Australia and New Guinea. This marsupial had hypsodont molars and weighed around 500 kg.[1] It was a relative of the larger Diprotodon and a distant kin to modern wombats.
Nototherium Temporal range:
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Fossil skull | |
Life reconstruction of Nototherium mitcheli | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Diprotodontia |
Family: | †Diprotodontidae |
Genus: | †Nototherium Owen, 1845 |
Type species | |
Nototherium inerme Owen, 1845
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Species | |
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