| Neohelos | |
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| An artist's illustration of Neohelos tirarensis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Suborder: | Vombatiformes |
| Superfamily: | †Diprotodontoidea |
| Family: | †Diprotodontidae |
| Subfamily: | †Zygomaturinae |
| Genus: | †Neohelos Stirton, 1967 |
| Type species | |
| †Neohelos tirarensis Stirton, 1967 | |
| Referred species | |
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Neohelos is an extinct sheep-sized marsupial from the late Oligocene to middle-Miocene aged deposits of Bullock Creek in the Northern Territory, Lake Ngapakaldi South Australia and riversleigh of Queensland. There are four species in this genera, N. tirarensis (Stirton 1967) from Bullock Creek and the undescribed N. spA, N. spB (Bullock creek and Riversleigh) and N. spC from Riversleigh. There might be a fifth species from Lake Ngapakaldi Local Fauna. These are all according to Murry et al. (2000 p. 111) may form succession species with the last being the ancestor to the genera Kolopsis.