Dorcopsoides

{{Short description|Extinct genus of marsupials}}

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| genus = Dorcopsoides

| parent_authority = Woodburne, 1967

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| authority = Woodburne, 1967

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Dorcopsoides is a genus of extinct species of kangaroo from the Pliocene of Australia.{{Fossilworks|id=40147|title=Dorcopsoides}}.

==Description==

Dorcopsoides was described in 1967 from the well-preserved lower jaw, skull fragments and occipital found in the Upper Miocene Alcoota Fossil Beds north-east of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. It was part of the Alcoota local fauna, which also included zygomaturine diprotodonts, a type of mihirung (Ilbandornis), a crocodile (Baru) and the giant thylacine, Thylacinus potens.[https://web.archive.org/web/20120327095644/http://www.nretas.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/12529/alcoota.pdf Alcoota Fossil Beds] – Government of the Northern Territory

It was about the size of a gray and black four-eyed opossum. The generic name (Dorcopsoides) indicates a resemblance to forest wallabies (Dorcopsis) now living in New Guinea and neighboring islands.{{cite book|author=Long, John A. & Archer, Michael |title=Prehistoric mammals of Australia and New Guinea: one hundred million years of evolution |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LwMkO0M1mPQC&pg=PA170 |publisher=UNSW Press |date=2002 |page=170 |isbn= 978-0801872235}}