Ganguroo

Ganguroo
Temporal range: 15โ€“5Ma

Mid to Late Miocene

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Diprotodontia
Suborder: Macropodiformes
Family: Macropodidae
Gray, 1821
Subfamily: Bulungamayinae
Genus: Ganguroo
Species
  • G. bilamina Cooke, 1997

The genus Ganguroo is a species of early to middle Miocene kangaroo. The relationship within the macropodidae is in dispute, though it is phylogenetically proposed to be a sister taxon with the Macropodidae.

References

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