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''Ganguroo'' is a genus of fossil macropods found at Riversleigh in
Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...
, material dating from the Middle to Late
Miocene The Miocene ( ) is the first epoch (geology), geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma). The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell; the name comes from the Greek words (', "less") and (', "new") and mea ...
Epoch. The
type species In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...
of the genus is ''Ganguroo bilamina'', published in 1997. Two recently described species, ''Ganguroo bites'' and ''Ganguroo robustiter'', have also been placed in this genus.


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* {{Taxonbar, from=Q5521271 Prehistoric macropods Miocene mammals of Australia Riversleigh fauna Fossil taxa described in 1997 Prehistoric marsupial genera