Kolopsoides is an extinct genus of Zygomaturinae marsupial from the Otibanda Formation, Pliocene of Watut River, Papua New Guinea.
| Kolopsoides Temporal range: Pliocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | †Diprotodontidae |
| Subfamily: | †Zygomaturinae |
| Genus: | †Kolopsoides Plane, 1967 |
| Species: | †K. cultridens
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| Binomial name | |
| †Kolopsoides cultridens Plane, 1967
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References
edit- Long, J., Archer, M., Flannery, T., & Hand, S. (2002) Prehistoric mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One hundred million years of evolution. University of New South Wales Press (page 16)
- Kolopsoides cultridens at the Paleobiology Database
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