{{Short description|Extinct genus of marsupials}} {{Automatic Taxobox | fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Late Oligocene|Early Miocene}} | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Nambaroo | authority = Flannery and Rich, 1986<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Flannery |first1=Tim |last2=Rich |first2=Thomas H. V. |title=Macropodoids from the Middle Miocene Namba Formation, South Australia, and the homology of some dental structures in kangaroos |journal=Journal of Paleontology |date=1986 |volume=60 |issue=2 |pages=418–447 |doi=10.1017/S0022336000021958|bibcode=1986JPal...60..418F |s2cid=86029480 }}</ref> | type_species=''Nambaroo tarrinyeri'' | type_species_authority=Flannery & Rich, 1986 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = *''N. novus'' <small>Flannery & Rich, 1986</small> *''N. saltavus'' <small>Flannery & Rich, 1986</small> *''N. tarrinyeri'' <small>Flannery & Rich, 1986</small> }}
'''''Nambaroo''''' is an extinct genus of macropod marsupial from the late Oligocene to the early Miocene of Australia.<ref name="Kear">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. ([http://jpaleontol.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/81/6/1147 abstract])</ref>
Recent research suggests that the many species belonging to this genus may be either be invalid or belong to the closely related ''Ganawamaya''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Butler |first1=K. |title=Revision of Oligo-Miocene kangaroos, Ganawamaya and Nambaroo (Marsupialia: Macropodiformes, Balbaridae) |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |date=2018 |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=1–58 |doi=10.26879/747 |url=http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f8cb/70353fc0426ae4a06ef991a5429189b1609e.pdf|doi-access=free }}</ref>
==Sources== {{Reflist}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20071221134011/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071219-kangaroo-fossil.html "Granddaddy of Kangaroos" Found in Aussie Fossil] at ''National Geographic''
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Category:Prehistoric macropods Category:Oligocene marsupials Category:Miocene marsupials Category:Tortonian extinctions Category:Chattian genus first appearances Category:Oligocene mammals of Australia Category:Miocene mammals of Australia Category:Fossil taxa described in 1986
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