''Watutia'' is an extinct genus of fossil kangaroo known from the Pliocene from New Guinea. It is only known from the type species ''Watutia novaeguineae,'' known from some fragmentary upper and lower jaws and isolated teeth from the
Pliocene
The Pliocene ( ; also Pleiocene) is the epoch (geology), epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.33 to 2.58Otibanda Formation in the
Morobe Province
Morobe is a province on the northern coast of Papua New Guinea. The provincial capital and largest city is Lae. The province covers 33,705 km2, with a population of 674,810 (2011 census), and since the division of Southern Highlands Province ...
of
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...
. The closest relative of the genus was possibly ''
Hadronomas
''Hadronomas'' is a genus of kangaroo in the subfamily Sthenurinae. There is only one described species, ''Hadronomas puckridgi'', known from various fossil material from the Alcoota Fauna
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The Alcoota Fossil Beds are an important ...
'', who lived in today's Queensland a few million years earlier. ''W. novaeguineae'' was about the size of a large shrub
wallaby
A wallaby () is a small or middle-sized Macropodidae, macropod native to Australia and New Guinea, with introduced populations in New Zealand, Hawaii, the United Kingdom and other countries. They belong to the same Taxonomy (biology), taxon ...
(''
Dorcopsis
''Dorcopsis'' is a genus of marsupial in the family Macropodidae
Macropodidae is a Family (biology), family of marsupials that includes kangaroos, Wallaby, wallabies, tree-kangaroos, wallaroos, pademelons, quokkas, and several other groups. ...
'') and differs in some characteristics from the teeth of other kangaroos. The molars were low and the first premolars elongated. Cristids obliqua and posterior cingula are missing on the lower molars. The feature that defines the close association with ''Hadronomas'' was the upper first premolar, which was more bulbous with no lingual cingulum, differing it from most Macropods.