Nambaroo

Nambaroo
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Balbaridae
Genus: Nambaroo
Flannery and Rich, 1986
Type species
Nambaroo tarrinyeri
Flannery & Rich, 1986
Species
  • N. novus Flannery & Rich, 1986
  • N. saltavus Flannery & Rich, 1986
  • N. tarrinyeri Flannery & Rich, 1986

Nambaroo is an extinct genus of macropod marsupial from the late Oligocene to the early Miocene of Australia.

Recent research suggests that the many species belonging to this genus may be either be invalid or belong to the closely related Ganawamaya.