Watutia
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 Otibanda Formation in the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea. The closest relative of the genus was possibly "Hadronomas", who lived in today's Queensland a few million years earlier. "W. novaeguineae" was about the size of a large shrub wallaby ("Dorcopsis") and differs in some characteristics from the teeth of other kangaroos. The molars were low and the first premolars elongated. Cristids obliqua and posterioor 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.
Q76259
Pliocene
MEDIA
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Otibanda Formation
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Q853664
Morobe Province
LOC
Q691
Papua New Guinea
LOC
Q3782381
Hadronomas
Concept
Q623169
wallaby
Concept
Q1017370
Dorcopsis
UNK
Q18155971
Watutia
MISC
Q18155971
Watutia
MISC
country