Ganguroo
Extinct genus of marsupials
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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.
| Ganguroo Temporal range: | |
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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 | |
| Species | |
Palaeobiology
Palaeoecology
Three dimensional geometric morphometric analysis shows that Ganguroo was herbivorous rather than omnivorous or fungivorous.[5]