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Birbalomys
Taxonomy
Birbalomys was named by Sahni and Khare (1973). Its type is Birbalomys woodi.
It was assigned to Paramyinae by Sahni and Khare (1973), Sahni and Srivastava (1976); to Ctenodactylidae by Hartenberger (1982), Gingerich et al. (1983); to Chapattimyinae by Averianov (1996); to Chapattimyidae by Kumar et al. (1997), Thewissen et al. (2001); and to Ctenodactyloidea by Li and Meng (2015).
It was assigned to Paramyinae by Sahni and Khare (1973), Sahni and Srivastava (1976); to Ctenodactylidae by Hartenberger (1982), Gingerich et al. (1983); to Chapattimyinae by Averianov (1996); to Chapattimyidae by Kumar et al. (1997), Thewissen et al. (2001); and to Ctenodactyloidea by Li and Meng (2015).
Species
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1973 | Birbalomys Sahni and Khare p. 34 figs. Plate 1, Figs. 1-6 |
| 1976 | Birbalomys Sahni and Srivastava p. 922 |
| 1976 | Metkamys Sahni and Srivastava p. 924 |
| 1982 | Birbalomys Hartenberger p. 24 |
| 1983 | Birbalomys Gingerich et al. p. 404 |
| 1996 | Birbalomys Averianov |
| 1997 | Birbalomys Kumar et al. |
| 1997 | Metkamys McKenna and Bell |
| 2001 | Birbalomys Thewissen et al. p. 353 |
| 2015 | Birbalomys Li and Meng |
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G. †Birbalomys Sahni and Khare 1973
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†Birbalomys ibrahimshahi Hussain et al. 1978
†Birbalomys sondaari Hussain et al. 1978
†Birbalomys woodi Sahni and Khare 1973
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Invalid names: Metkamys blacki Sahni and Srivastava 1976 [synonym]
Invalid names: Metkamys Sahni and Srivastava 1976 [synonym]
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| J.L. Hartenberger 1982 | brachyodont ctenodactylid; lower jaw massive; reduced P3; upper teeth with low and strong cusps; hypocone and protocone of same size; protoloph present; p4 short; mesoconid present in the nearly complete ectolophid; metalophid and hypolophid with a transverse direction. |