Cookeroo

Cookeroo
Temporal range: 23–18 Ma
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Late Oligocene - Early Miocene

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Diprotodontia
Suborder: Macropodiformes
Family: Macropodidae
Gray, 1821
Subfamily: Bulungamayinae
Genus: Cookeroo
Species
  • C. bulwidarri Butler et al., 2016[1]
  • C. hortusensis Butler et al., 2016[1]

Cookeroo is a genus of extinct kangaroos from the Late Oligocene and Early Miocene found in fossil deposits from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, in Australia. The genus includes two species, C. bulwidarri and C. hortusensis.

References

  1. 1 2 Butler, Kaylene; Travouillon, Kenny J.; Price, Gilbert J.; Archer, Michael; Hand, Suzanne J. (2016). "Cookeroo, a new genus of fossil kangaroo (Marsupialia, Macropodidae) from the Oligo-Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, Australia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. doi:10.1080/02724634.2016.1083029. (subscription required (help)).


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