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{{Short description|Extinct genus of marsupials}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Ganguroo
| authority = [[Bernard Cooke (academic)|Cooke]], 1997<ref name="Cooke-1997" />
| type_species = †'''''Ganguroo bilamina'''''
| type_species_authority = Cooke, 1997
| subdivision_ranks = [[Species]]
| subdivision =
*''G. bilamina''
*''G. bites'' <small>Travouillon et al., 2014</small><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Travouillon |first1=K. |title=Revision of basal macropodids from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area with descriptions of new material of Ganguroo bilamina Cooke, 1997 and a new species |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |date=2014 |volume=17 |issue=1 |page=20A |doi=10.26879/402|doi-access=free }}</ref>
*''G. robustiter'' <small>Cooke ''et al''., 2015</small><ref name="Cooke-2015" />
}}
'''''Ganguroo''''' is a genus of fossil [[Macropodidae|macropod]]s found at [[Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh)|Riversleigh]] in [[Australia]], material dating from the Middle to Late [[Miocene]] Epoch.
The [[type species]] of the genus is ''Ganguroo bilamina'', published in 1997. Two recently described species, ''Ganguroo bites'' and ''Ganguroo robustiter'', have also been placed in this genus.
==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="Cooke-1997">{{cite journal | first = Bernard N. | last = Cooke | title = New Miocene bulungamayine kangaroos (Marsupialia: Potoroidae) from the Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland | journal = Memoirs of the Queensland Museum | volume = 41 | issue = 2 | pages = 281–294 | url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/50827 }}</ref>
<ref name="Cooke-2015">{{Cite journal | first1 = Bernard N. | last1 = Cooke | first2 = Kenny J. | last2 = Travouillon | first3 = Michael | last3 = Archer | first4 = Suzanne J. | last4 = Hand | date = 2015 |title=''Ganguroo robustiter'', sp. nov. (Macropodoidea, Marsupialia), a middle to early late Miocene basal macropodid from Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia |journal=[[Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology]] |volume=35 |issue=4 |pages=e956879 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2015.956879 | s2cid = 83999569 | url = https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/_i_Ganguroo_robustiter_i_sp_nov_Macropodoidea_Marsupialia_a_middle_to_early_late_Miocene_basal_macropodid_from_Riversleigh_World_Heritage_Area_Australia/1456234 }}</ref>
}}
===Further reading===
* {{cite journal | url = https://www.academia.edu/3717866 | last1 = Kear | first1 = B. P. | last2 = Archer | first2 = M. | last3 = Flannery | first3 = T. F. | date = 2001 | title = Postcranial morphology of ''Ganguroo bilamina'', Cooke 1997 (Marsupialia: Macropodidae) from the middle Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland | journal = Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists | volume = 25 | pages =123–138 }}
{{Phalangerida|M.}}
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[[Category:Prehistoric macropods]]
[[Category:Miocene mammals of Australia]]
[[Category:Riversleigh fauna]]
[[Category:Fossil taxa described in 1997]]
[[Category:Prehistoric marsupial genera]]