Ganguroo

Ganguroo is a genus of fossil macropods found at Riversleigh in Australia, material dating from the middle to late Miocene period,. 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.

Ganguroo
Temporal range: 15–5 Ma
Mid to Late Miocene
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Ganguroo

Cooke, 1997
Species
  • G. bilamina Cooke, 1997[1]
  • G. robustiter Cooke et al., 2015[2]

References

  1. Cooke, Bernard N. "New Miocene bulungamayine kangaroos (Marsupialia: Potoroidae) from the Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 41 (2): 281–294.
  2. 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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