Cookeroo
Name: Cookeroo.
Phonetic: Cook-eh-ru.
Named By: K. Butler, K. J. Travouillon,
G. J. Price, M. Archer & S. J. Hand - 2016.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia,
Marsupialia, Diprotodontia, Macropodidae.
Species: C. bulwidarri
(type), C. hortusensis.
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: Australia - Faunal Zone B
zone, System B Formation.
Time period: Miocene.
Fossil representation: Partial remains of several
individuals.
Cookeroo is a genus of kangaroo that lived in Australia during the Miocene.
Further reading
- Cookeroo, a new genus of fossil kangaroo
(Marsupialia,
Macropodidae) from the Oligo-Miocene of Riversleigh, Northwestern
Queensland, Australia. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
36(3):e1083029 - K. Butler, K. J. Travouillon, G.
J. Price, M. Archer & S. J. Hand - 2016.
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