Nambaroo

Nambaroo
Temporal range: Late Oligocene–Early Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupiala
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Balbaridae
Subfamily: Nambarinae
Genus: Nambaroo
Flannery and Rich, 1986
Species
  • N. bullockensis Schwartz & Megirian, 2004
  • N. couperi Cooke, 1997
  • N. gillespieae Kear, Cooke, Archer & Flannery, 2007
  • N. novus Flannery & Rich, 1986
  • N. saltavus Flannery & Rich, 1986
  • N. tarrinyeri Flannery & Rich, 1986 (type species)

Nambaroo is an extinct genus of macropod marsupial from the late Oligocene to the early Miocene of Australia.[1]

Sources

  1. ↑ 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)
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