Nambashag

Name: Nambashag.
Phonetic: Nam-bah-shak.
Named By: Trevor H.‭ ‬Worthy‭ ‬-‭ ‬2011.
Classification: Chordata,‭ ‬Aves,‭ ‬Pelecaniformes,‭ ‬Phalacrocoracidae.
Species: N.‭ ‬billerooensis‭ (‬type‭)‬,‭ ‬N.‭ ‬microglaucus.
Diet: Piscivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: Australia.
Time period: Late Oligocene/Early Miocene.
Fossil representation: Several dozen specimens.

       Nambashag is a genus of cormorant that lived in Australia during the Oligocene/Miocene.

Further reading
-‭ ‬Descriptions and phylogenetic relationships of a new genus and two new species of Oligo-Miocene cormorants‭ (‬Aves:‭ ‬Phalacrocoracidae‭) ‬from Australia.‭ ‬-‭ ‬Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society‭ ‬163‭ (‬1‭)‬:‭ ‬277‭–‬314.‭ ‬-‭ ‬Trevor H.‭ ‬Worthy‭ ‬-‭ ‬2011.

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