Nambaroo
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Genus: | Nambaroo Flannery and Rich, 1986
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Nambaroo is an extinct genus of macropod marsupial from the late Oligocene to the early Miocene of Australia.[1]
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)
- "Granddaddy of Kangaroos" Found in Aussie Fossil at National Geographic