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Since I am reading Jared's Lands of Red and Gold again and I was thinking about native transport and distances in that TL, a simple thought had suddenly occured to me :

WI, in an ATL, some marsupial species had evolved into a sufficiently horse-like or camelid-like creature ?

Simply put, into a creature that an eventual native Australian civilization (one evolved along the same early patterns as the cultures in LORAG, for instance) could tame, domesticate and use. Use as a beast of burden and as a cavalry animal.

Which OTL extinct species could be best suited to this kind of evolution ?



Please, be creative and don't give me lazy answers like "let the Aborigines wait for imported horses and camels".
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