Propleopus chillagoensis

{{short description|Extinct species of marsupial}}

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| genus = Propleopus

| species = chillagoensis

| authority = Archer et al., 1978

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Propleopus chillagoensis is an extinct species of marsupial, of the genus Propleopus. It was found in new North Queensland, and is related to the musky rat-kangaroo.{{cite journal |author1=M. Archer |author2=A. Bartholomai |author3=L. G. Marshall |title=Propleopus chillagoensis, a new North Queensland species of extinct giant rat–kangaroo (Macropodidae: Potorinae)|journal=Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria |date=1978 |volume=39 |pages=55–60 |doi=10.24199/J.MMV.1978.39.04|doi-access=free }} Propleopus chillagoensis was likely omnivorous.

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