Hadronomas

Hadronomas; Temporal range: Late Miocene–Late Pliocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Marsupialia
Order:	Diprotodontia
Family:	Macropodidae
Subfamily:	†Sthenurinae
Genus:	†Hadronomas; Woodburne, 1967
Type species
	†Hadronomas puckridgi; Woodburne, 1967

Hadronomas is an extinct genus of kangaroo in the subfamily Sthenurinae. There is only one described species, Hadronomas puckridgi, known from various fossil material from the Alcoota Fauna site, and an undescribed species from Lake Kanunka.

Description

Hadronomas had a simple talonid wall characterised by the absence of a posthypocristid.

↑ Woodburne, Michael O (1967), "The Alcoota fauna, Central Australia. An integrated palaeontological and geological study.", Bulletin of the Bureau of National Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Australia, 87: 1–187
↑ Prideaux, Gavin J. (2004). Systematics and evolution of the sthenurine kangaroo. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-09845-5.
↑ Couzens, Aidan M. C.; Evans, Alistair R.; Skinner, Matthew M.; Prideaux, Gavin J. (1 March 2016). "The role of inhibitory dynamics in the loss and reemergence of macropodoid tooth traits: DENTAL REVERSAL IN MACROPODOIDS". Evolution. 70 (3): 568–585. doi:10.1111/evo.12866. Retrieved 14 May 2026 – via Oxford Academic.