Nambaroo

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

Nambaroo
Temporal range:
Scientific classification Edit this 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. 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

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. 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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