| Maokopia Temporal range:Late Pleistocene | |
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Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | †Diprotodontidae |
| Subfamily: | †Zygomaturinae |
| Genus: | †Maokopia Flannery, 1992 |
| Species: | †M. ronaldi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Maokopia ronaldi Flannery, 1992 | |
Maokopia is an extinct genus ofZygomaturinae from theLate Pleistocene ofIrian Jaya,New Guinea. It is known from a partial skull and was a comparatively small species of diprotodontid, weighing 100 kg.[1] Murray (1992) suggested that it was most closely related toHulitherium. The teeth indicate a diet of hardferns andgrasses that still grow in thealpine meadows of the area (Longet al., 2002).
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