''Nambaroo'' is an

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genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of macropod

marsupial Marsupials are a diverse group of mammals belonging to the infraclass Marsupialia. They are natively found in Australasia, Wallacea, and the Americas. One of marsupials' unique features is their reproductive strategy: the young are born in a r ...

from the late

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to the early

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.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 ''

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'' 81, pp. 1147-1167.
abstract
Recent research suggests that the many species belonging to this genus may be either be invalid or belong to the closely related '' Ganawamaya''.

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"Granddaddy of Kangaroos" Found in Aussie Fossil
at ''National Geographic'' Prehistoric macropods Oligocene marsupials Miocene marsupials Tortonian extinctions Chattian genus first appearances Oligocene mammals of Australia Miocene mammals of Australia Fossil taxa described in 1986 {{Diprotodont-stub