Propleopus oscillans Variante:Imprimado Dsungaripterus weii

Dsungaripterus weii

Paleoecología: el cazador de gigantes

together with cranial adaptations that favoured a predation strategy based on bite force and not on the use of front limbs

hace entre 295 y 272 millones de años

muy similares a los de los dinosaurios carnívoros

Propleopus oscillans Variante:Imprimado Dsungaripterus weiiPropleopus oscillans was an extinct macropodoid from the Pleistocene of Australia, commonly known as the giant rat kangaroo. Although it has sometimes been popularly described as a carnivorous kangaroo, this interpretation should be treated with caution: studies of its skull, jaws, and dentition suggest instead a marsupial with a probably omnivorous diet, capable of consuming plant material, hard fruits, fungi, insects, small vertebrates, carrion, or