''Macropus titan'' is an extinct species of

kangaroo Kangaroos are 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 ...

belonging to the genus ''

Macropus ''Macropus'', from the Ancient Greek words μάκρος (''mákros''), meaning "long", and πους (''pous''), meaning "foot", is a marsupial genus in the family Macropodidae. It has two extant species of large terrestrial kangaroos. Thirteen kn ...

'' that lived in Australia during the

Pleistocene The Pleistocene ( ; referred to colloquially as the ''ice age, Ice Age'') is the geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was fin ...

. It is one of the largest known kangaroo species, with an estimated body mass of around , exceeding living kangaroos in size. Some authors have argued that the species should be considered a

paleosubspecies A chronospecies is a species derived from a sequential development pattern that involves continual and uniform changes from an extinct ancestral form on an evolutionary scale. The sequence of alterations eventually produces a population that is p ...

of the

eastern grey kangaroo The eastern grey kangaroo (''Macropus giganteus'': gigantic large-foot; also great grey kangaroo or forester kangaroo) is a marsupial found in the eastern third of Australia, with a population of several million. Although a large ''M. giganteus ...

(''Macropus giganteus'') as ''Macropus giganteus titan''.

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External links

Mikko's Phylogeny archive
Prehistoric macropods Pleistocene mammals of Australia Pleistocene marsupials Mammals described in 1838 {{paleo-marsupial-stub