Nototherium

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: Pliocene–Pleistocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
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
Species
See text

Species

• Nototherium inerme Owen, 1845
• Nototherium watutense Anderson, 1937 (formerly considered to be a member of Kolopsis) Plio-Pleistocene, New Guinea.^[2]
• Nototherium mitchelli Owen, 1845 Pleistocene, Australia (possibly a junior synonym of N. inerme)^[2]

References

1. Ross D.E. MacPhee, Hans-Dieter Sues, 1999, Extinctions in Near Time, p.251, Springer Science & Business Media
2. Mackness, Brian (March 2013). "On the identity of ' Kolopsis ' watutense (Anderson, 1937) (Diprotodontidae, Marsupialia) and the New Guinean diprotodontid radiation". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 37 (1): 39–47. Bibcode:2013Alch...37...39M. doi:10.1080/03115518.2012.701488. ISSN 0311-5518. S2CID 85153904.

• Wildlife of Gondwana: Dinosaurs and Other Vertebrates from the Ancient Supercontinent (Life of the Past) by Pat Vickers Rich, Thomas Hewitt Rich, Francesco Coffa, and Steven Morton
• Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution by John A. Long, Michael Archer, Timothy Flannery, and Suzanne Hand