Nambaroo

Nambaroo Temporal range: Late Oligocene–Early Miocene PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Marsupiala
Order:	Diprotodontia
Family:	Balbaridae
Subfamily:	Nambarinae
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 some 25 million years ago 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)

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