Ngamaroo Kear and Pledge 2007 (diprotodont marsupial)

Mammalia - Diprotodontia

Full reference: B. P. Kear and N. S. Pledge. 2007. A new fossil kangaroo from the Oligocene-Miocene Etadunna Formation of Ngama Quarry, Lake Palankarinna, South Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 55:331-339

Parent taxon: Macropodoidea according to B. P. Kear and N. S. Pledge 2007

Sister taxa: Balbaridae, Balbarinae, Bulungamayinae, Hypsiprymnodontidae, Propleopinae, Sthenurinae

Subtaxa: Ngamaroo archeri

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Type: Ngamaroo archeri

Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution: found only at Mammalon Hill (Oligocene of Australia)

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