| Macropus pearsoni Temporal range: Pleistocene | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Suborder: | Macropodiformes |
| Family: | Macropodidae |
| Genus: | Macropus |
| Species: | †M. pearsoni |
| Binomial name | |
| †Macropus pearsoni Bartholomai, 1971 | |
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Macropus pearsoni is an extinct species of kangaroo belonging to the same genus Macropus as extant kangaroos. Macropus pearsoni lived during the Pleistocene. It is known from fossil mandibles collected from Pleistocene beds from the Darling Downs in New South Wales, Lake Kanunka in northeastern South Australia, and Cape York Peninsula.