''Macropus titan'' is an extinct species of
kangaroo
Kangaroos are four marsupials from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning "large foot"). In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, the red kangaroo, as well as the antilopine kangaroo, eastern gre ...
(a
marsupial
Marsupials are any members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia. All extant marsupials are endemic to Australasia, Wallacea and the Americas. A distinctive characteristic common to most of these species is that the young are carried in a po ...
) that lived during the
Pleistocene
The Pleistocene ( , often referred to as the ''Ice age'') is the geological Epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was fina ...
. The species was most similar to the extant kangaroo species ''Macropus giganteus'', the
eastern grey kangaroo. Some doubt exists as to whether ''Macropus titan'' constitutes a separate species to the eastern grey kangaroo, as the two are extremely similar, ''M. titan'' differing consistently only in its greater size.
References
External links
Mikko's Phylogeny archive
Prehistoric macropods
Pleistocene mammals of Australia
Pleistocene marsupials
Mammals described in 1838
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