Diprotodon is the largest-known marsupial to have ever lived; it greatly exceeds the size of its closest living relatives wombats and koalas. It is a member of the extinct family Diprotodontidae, which includes other large quadrupedal herbivores.

Diprotodon, extinct genus of marsupial classified in the suborder Vombatiformes and considered to be the largest known group of marsupial mammals. Diprotodon lived during the Pleistocene Epoch (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago) in Australia and is a close relative of living wombats and koalas. Its name in Latin means “two forward teeth.”

The massive Diprotodon optatum, from the Pleistocene of Australia, was the largest marsupial known and the last of the extinct, herbivorous diprotodontids. Diprotodon was the first fossil mammal named from Australia (Owen 1838) and one of the most well known of the megafauna.

2019年1月21日 · Diprotodon, also known as the giant wombat, was the largest marsupial that ever existed. Adult males measured up to 10 feet from head to tail and weighed upward of three tons. Discover 10 fascinating facts about this extinct megafauna mammal of Pleistocene Australia.

2022年11月3日 · Diprotodon was one of the first fossil mammals from Australia. It is also one of the most well-known megafaunas in the world. Also known as the giant wombat, the Diprotodon is a much bigger version of the modern wombat and a close relative of the koalas. It lived for about 2.6 million years and went extinct roughly 50,000 years ago.

2019年8月2日 · Meet the Diprotodon, a 6-foot, 6,000-pound ancient wombat who put the largest living marsupial of today — the 200-pound red kangaroo — to shame. Indeed, the Diprotodon is the largest marsupial to have ever existed.

2017年9月27日 · Diprotodon is an ancient marsupial and a far relative of modern wombats and koalas. It lived from 1.6 million – 45 thousand years ago and was massive: it was 1.8m tall and 3.5m long and weighed three-tonnes. Now, it turns out it was also a migratory species.

2018年9月17日 · Today, Australia contains many wild and wondrous animals, and not much has changed over the past millions of years. The diprotodon is an animal that roamed Australia 5.3 million years ago. It was the largest known marsupial to have ever existed; imagine a wombat, but the size of a hippopotamus and weighing nearly two tons.

2021年11月30日 · Here we add new understanding about the geochronology of the world's largest-ever marsupial, the giant wombat-like Diprotodon optatum, an iconic member of the large herbivore guild of Pleistocene Australia.

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