Silvaroo

Taxobox
name = "Silvaroo"
fossil_range = Pleistocene
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
infraclassis = Marsupialia
ordo = Diprotodontia
familia = Macropodidae
genus = "Silvaroo"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Silvaroo bandharr"
"Silvaroo buloloensis"

"Silvaroo" is a genus of megafaunal macropods that existed in Australia in the Pleistocene. Based on fossil evidence and affinities with the extant forest wallabies from the genera "Dorcopsis" and "Dorcopsulus" from Papua New Guinea, the two species of this genera were removed from the genus "Protemnodon" to "Silvaroo". [cite journal | author = Dawson, L. | year = 2004 | title = New fossil genus of forest wallaby (Marsupialia, Macropodinae) and a review of Protemnodon from eastern Australia and New Guinea | journal = Alcheringa | volume = 28 | pages = 275–290]

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