Nambaroo

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

Nambaroo
Temporal range: Late Oligocene–Early Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Infraclass:
Marsupialia
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)

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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