Nambaroo Explained

Nambaroo is an extinct genus of macropod marsupial from the late Oligocene to the early Miocene of Australia.^[1]

Recent research suggests that the many species belonging to this genus may be either be invalid or belong to the closely related Ganawamaya.^[2]

Sources

• "Granddaddy of Kangaroos" Found in Aussie Fossil at National Geographic

Notes and References

1. 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)
2. Butler . K. . Revision of Oligo-Miocene kangaroos, Ganawamaya and Nambaroo (Marsupialia: Macropodiformes, Balbaridae) . Palaeontologia Electronica . 2018 . 21 . 1 . 1–58 . 10.26879/747 . free .