Ganguroo
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | Potoroidae |
| Subfamily: | †Bulungamayinae |
| Genus: | †Ganguroo Cooke, 1997[1] |
| Type species | |
| †Ganguroo bilamina Cooke, 1997
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| Species | |
Ganguroo is a genus of fossil macropods found at Riversleigh in Australia, material dating from the Early to Late Miocene subepochs.[4] The type species of the genus is Ganguroo bilamina, described in 1997. Two recently described species, Ganguroo bites and Ganguroo robustiter, have also been placed in this genus.
Palaeobiology
Palaeoecology
Three dimensional geometric morphometric analysis shows that Ganguroo was herbivorous rather than omnivorous or fungivorous.[5]
References
- ^ Cooke, Bernard N. "New Miocene bulungamayine kangaroos (Marsupialia: Potoroidae) from the Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 41 (2): 281–294.
- ^ Travouillon, K. (2014). "Revision of basal macropodids from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area with descriptions of new material of Ganguroo bilamina Cooke, 1997 and a new species". Palaeontologia Electronica. 17 (1): 20A. doi:10.26879/402.
- ^ Cooke, Bernard N.; Travouillon, Kenny J.; Archer, Michael; Hand, Suzanne J. (2015). "Ganguroo robustiter, sp. nov. (Macropodoidea, Marsupialia), a middle to early late Miocene basal macropodid from Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (4) e956879. doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.956879. S2CID 83999569.
- ^ "PBDB Taxon". Retrieved 17 January 2026.
- ^ Butler, Kaylene; Travouillon, Kenny J.; Evans, Alistair R.; Murphy, Laura; Price, Gilbert J.; Archer, Michael; Hand, Suzanne J.; Weisbecker, Vera (11 June 2020). "3D Morphometric Analysis Reveals Similar Ecomorphs for Early Kangaroos (Macropodidae) and Fanged Kangaroos (Balbaridae) from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 28 (2): 199–219. doi:10.1007/s10914-020-09507-8. ISSN 1064-7554. Retrieved 17 January 2026 – via Springer Nature Link.
Further reading
- 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.