Nambaroo

<i>Nambaroo</i>

Nambaroo

Extinct genus of marsupials

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

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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. [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. [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. [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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