Nambaroo Temporal range: Late Oligocene–Early Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Diprotodontia |
Family: | †Balbaridae |
Genus: | †Nambaroo Flannery and Rich, 1986 |
Type species | |
Nambaroo tarrinyeri Flannery & Rich, 1986 | |
Species | |
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Nambaroo is an extinct genus of macropod marsupial from the late Oligocene to the early Miocene of Australia.
Recent research suggests that the many species belonging to this genus may be either be invalid or belong to the closely related Ganawamaya.
Sources
- Flannery, Tim; Rich, Thomas H. V. (1986). "Macropodoids from the Middle Miocene Namba Formation, South Australia, and the homology of some dental structures in kangaroos". Journal of Paleontology. 60 (2): 418–447. Bibcode:1986JPal...60..418F. doi:10.1017/S0022336000021958. S2CID 86029480.
- B.P. Kear; B.N. Cooke; M. Archer; T.F.Flannery (2007). Implications of a new species of the Oligo-Miocene kangaroo (Marsupialia: Macropodoidea) Nambaroo, from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Queensland, Australia, in Journal of Paleontology 81, pp. 1147-1167. (abstract)
- Butler, K. (2018). "Revision of Oligo-Miocene kangaroos, Ganawamaya and Nambaroo (Marsupialia: Macropodiformes, Balbaridae)". Palaeontologia Electronica. 21 (1): 1–58. doi:10.26879/747.
- "Granddaddy of Kangaroos" Found in Aussie Fossil at National Geographic
Taxon identifiers | |
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Nambaroo |
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