Mammal
Hulitherium
Hulitherium was a large extinct marsupial with a distinctive skull and robust limbs.
Hulitherium was a large extinct marsupial with a distinctive skull and robust limbs. Its New Guinea fossil record adds another body form to the diversity of diprotodontids.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Hulitherium at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Its feeding anatomy is interpreted as adapted to plant food.
- When it lived
- Pleistocene
- Group
- Marsupialia
- Marsupialia
Beyond the game
The real Hulitherium
Hulitherium was a large extinct marsupial with a distinctive skull and robust limbs. Its New Guinea fossil record adds another body form to the diversity of diprotodontids.
The named fossils document a distinctive New Guinea diprotodontid. Its skull and limbs provide a separate animal from the large Australian forms often used for comparison.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Geoscience Australia, Catalogue of Type Fossil Vertebrates: Hulitherium tomasettii ↗
Map location · Pureni, Hela Province, Papua New Guinea ↗
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: Paleobiology Database and linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
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