Protemnodon
| Protemnodon Temporal range: Pliocene - Late Pleistocene | |
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| Skull of Protemnodon anak at the Melbourne Museum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | Macropodidae |
| Subfamily: | Macropodinae |
| Genus: | †Protemnodon Owen, 1874 |
| Type species | |
| †Protemnodon anak Owen, 1874 | |
| Species | |
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Protemnodon is an extinct genus of megafaunal macropodids that existed in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea in the Pliocene and Pleistocene. Members of this genus are also called giant kangaroos.