Simosthenurus
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Simosthenurus is a genus of megafaunal macropods that existed in Australia
in the Pleistocene
. The members of the genus are large, Simosthenurus occidentalis weighed over 118 kilograms.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
in the Pleistocene
Pleistocene
The Pleistocene is the epoch from 2,588,000 to 11,700 years BP that spans the world's recent period of repeated glaciations. The name pleistocene is derived from the Greek and ....
. The members of the genus are large, Simosthenurus occidentalis weighed over 118 kilograms.