Ganguroo
| Ganguroo Temporal range: Mid to Late Miocene
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| Genus: | Ganguroo Cooke, 1997
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The genus Ganguroo is a species of early to middle to late Miocene kangaroo found in Riversleigh, in Australia. The relationship within the Macropodidae is in dispute, though it is phylogenetically proposed to be a sister taxon with the Macropodidae.
References
- ^ Cooke, Bernard N. "New Miocene bulungamayine kangaroos (Marsupialia: Potoroidae) from the Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 41 (2): 281–294. BioStor: 105299.
- ^ 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.
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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.