Nambaroo

Nambaroo Temporal range: Late Oligocene–Early Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Marsupialia
Order:	Diprotodontia
Family:	†Balbaridae
Genus:	†Nambaroo Flannery and Rich, 1986[1]
Type species
Nambaroo tarrinyeri Flannery & Rich, 1986
Species
N. novus Flannery & Rich, 1986 N. saltavus Flannery & Rich, 1986 N. tarrinyeri Flannery & Rich, 1986

Nambaroo is an extinct genus of macropod marsupial from the late Oligocene to the early Miocene of Australia.^[2]

Recent research suggests that the many species belonging to this genus may be either be invalid or belong to the closely related Ganawamaya.^[3]

Sources

1. 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.
2. 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)
3. Butler, K. (2018). "Revision of Oligo-Miocene kangaroos, Ganawamaya and Nambaroo (Marsupialia: Macropodiformes, Balbaridae)". Palaeontologia Electronica. 21 (1): 1–58. doi:10.26879/747.

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