{{Short description|Extinct genus of marsupials}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}} {{Automatic Taxobox | fossil_range = Late [[Miocene]] to [[Pliocene]] | image = Kolopsis torus 2.jpg | taxon = Kolopsis | authority = Woodburne, 1967 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text. | type_species = '''''Kolopsis torus''''' | type_species_authority = Woodburne, 1967 }}
'''''Kolopsis''''' is an [[extinct]] [[genus]] of [[diprotodontid]] [[marsupial]]s from [[Australia]] and [[Papua New Guinea]]. It contains three species,<ref name="mikko">{{cite web |url=http://www.helsinki.fi/~mhaaramo/metazoa/deuterostoma/chordata/synapsida/metatheria/notometatheria/diprotodontia/diprotodontidae.html |title=†Diprotodontidae after McKenna & Bell, 1997 |author=Mikko Haaramo |date=11 March 2008 |publisher=Mikko's Phylogeny Archive |accessdate=9 November 2011 }}</ref> although ''K. rotundus'' may be more closely related to other [[Zygomaturinae|zygomaturines]] than to ''Kolopsis''.<ref name="amus">{{cite web |url=http://australianmuseum.net.au/Kolopsis-torus- |title=''Kolopsis torus'' |author=Anne Musser |date=11 June 2009 |publisher=Australian Museum |accessdate=9 November 2011 }}</ref>
*†''Kolopsis rotundus'' <small>Plane 1967</small> ([[Pliocene]], [[Watut River]], Papua New Guinea) *†''Kolopsis torus'' <small>Woodburne, 1967</small> ([[Miocene]], [[Alcoota]], [[Northern Territory]], Australia) *†''Kolopsis yperus'' <small>Murray, Megirian & Wells, 1993</small> (Miocene, Alcoota, Northern Territory, Australia)
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[[Category:Diprotodontids]] [[Category:Miocene mammals of Australia]] [[Category:Miocene marsupials]] [[Category:Prehistoric marsupial genera]]
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