Nambaroo

Nambaroo; Temporal range: Late Oligocene–Early Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Marsupialia
Order:	Diprotodontia
Family:	†Balbaridae
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]

Recent research suggests that the many species belonging to this genus may be either be invalid or belong to the closely related Ganawamaya.^[2]

Sources[]

^ 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)
^ Butler, K. (2018). "Revision of Oligo-Miocene kangaroos, Ganawamaya and Nambaroo (Marsupialia: Macropodiformes, Balbaridae)". Palaeontologia Electronica. doi:10.26879/747.

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