Procoptodon Goliah – 2.8m high – Giant Short-faced Megafauna Kangaroo

This custom-designed Procoptodon goliah sculpture is a great addition to our Australian Megafauna collection. Photos show unpainted and painted versions of the sculpture.

About the Procoptodon goliah

• These giant kangaroos lived alongside modern species of kangaroos in the Pleistocene epoch
• Primarily lived on a diet of leaves from trees and shrubs
• Due to the large size of these animals, they would have probably walked, not hopped
• Lived in a variety of habitats, mainly semiarid areas of New South Wales and South Australia
• Various complete skeletons were found in caves on the Nullarbor Plain
• Procoptodon would have had tiny, hairless young that developed to maturity in a pouch after birth
• It is believed to have become extinct about 15,000 years ago

 Sculpture features

• Museum-quality replica
• stands 2.8m high and is a heavily built kangaroo
• Handmade and painted
• Unusually short, flat face
• Forwardly directed eyes (giving it a primitive-like appearance)
• A single large toe on each foot (kangaroos normally have four)
• the Procoptodon foot and heel were wider than other kangaroos
• Each hand had two long clawed fingers (probably used for lowering branches)
• The height of Procoptodon goliah has often been estimated at about 3 metres

Display Suitability

This quality sculpture would be an ideal addition to:-

• An education museum display, diorama or exhibit. Ideal for young and older palaeontologists to understand the height and structure of our prehistoric, distant past.
• Educational and entertaining family attractions
• Natural wildlife displays
• Australian native and Aboriginal cultural and interpretive displays (Procoptodon goliah would have overlapped with Aboriginal people for as long as 30,000 years.  In New South Wales, Aboriginal people still recount stories of a large, long-armed, aggressive kangaroo that would attack people).
• Read more about Ptocoptodon goliah on the Australian Museum website 

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