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Ganguroo
Temporal range: 15–5Ma
Mid to Late Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Infraclass:
Marsupialia
Order:
Diprotodontia
Suborder:
Macropodiformes
Family:
Potoroidae
Subfamily:
Bulungamayinae
Genus:
Ganguroo

Cooke, 1997
Species
  • G. bilamina Cooke, 1997
  • G. robustiter Cooke et al., 2015

Ganguroo is a genus of fossil macropods found at Riversleigh in Australia, material dating from the Middle to Late Miocene Epoch. The type species of the genus is Ganguroo bilamina, published in 1997, and a species described in 2015, Ganguroo robustiter, has also been placed with this genus.

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Ganguroo para niños

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