Balbaroo Flannery et al. 1982 (diprotodont marsupial)

Mammalia - Diprotodontia

Full reference: T. F. Flannery, M. Archer, and M. Plane. 1982. Middle Miocene kangaroos (Macropodoidea: Marsupialia) from three localities In Northern Australia, with a description of two new subfamilies. BMR Journal of Australian Geology & Geophysics 7(4):287-302

Parent taxon: Balbarinae according to L. R. S. Schwartz and D. Megirian 2004

See also Black et al. 2014 and Flannery et al. 1982

Sister taxa: Galanarla, Ganawamaya, Wururoo

Subtaxa: Balbaroo camfieldensis Balbaroo fangaroo Balbaroo gregoriensis Balbaroo nalima

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Type: Balbaroo gregoriensis

Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Australia (7 collections)

• Oligocene of Australia (1)

Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence

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