Ganguroo
| Ganguroo Temporal range: Mid to Late Miocene
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| Genus: | Ganguroo Cooke, 1997
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Ganguroo is a genus of fossil macropods found at Riversleigh in Australia, material dating from the Middle to Late Miocene Epoch. The type species of the genus is Ganguroo bilamina, published in 1997, and a species described in 2015, Ganguroo robustiter, has also been placed with this genus.
References
- ^ Cooke, Bernard N. "New Miocene bulungamayine kangaroos (Marsupialia: Potoroidae) from the Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 41 (2): 281–294.
- ^ Cooke, Bernard N.; Travouillon, Kenny J.; Archer, Michael; Hand, Suzanne J. (2015). "Ganguroo robustiter, sp. nov. (Macropodoidea, Marsupialia), a middle to early late Miocene basal macropodid from Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (4): e956879. doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.956879.
Further reading
- Kear, B. P.; Archer, M.; Flannery, T. F. (2001). "Postcranial morphology of Ganguroo bilamina, Cooke 1997 (Marsupialia: Macropodidae) from the middle Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland". Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists. 25: 123–138.