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Balbaroo
Taxonomy
Balbaroo was named by Flannery et al. (1982). Its type is Balbaroo gregoriensis.
It was assigned to Balbarinae by Flannery et al. (1982), Schwartz and Megirian (2004); and to Balbaridae by Black et al. (2014).
It was assigned to Balbarinae by Flannery et al. (1982), Schwartz and Megirian (2004); and to Balbaridae by Black et al. (2014).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1982 | Balbaroo Flannery et al. p. 293 |
| 2004 | Balbaroo Schwartz and Megirian p. 668 |
| 2014 | Balbaroo Black et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Balbaroo Flannery et al. 1982
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†Balbaroo camfieldensis Flannery et al. 1982
†Balbaroo fangaroo Cooke 2000
†Balbaroo gregoriensis Flannery et al. 1982
†Balbaroo nalima Black et al. 2014
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| T. F. Flannery et al. 1982 | Balbarines differ from all potoroids except bulungamayines by having lophodont molars. They differ from bulungamayines by lacking a strongly convex ventral margin of the dentary, and by having a smaller opening to the masseteric canal, the M2trigonid markedly lower than the talonid, and the M2 protolophid markedly compressed. They can be distinguished from all known macropodids by the M2 characteristics mentioned above , and by a small cuspid, possiblY a rudimentary paraconid, on the lingual side of the anterior cingulum of the lower molars. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum, p = phylum | |||||
| References: Clemens 1979, Lillegraven 1979, Kiessling 2004, Carroll 1988, Hopson 1973 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Oligocene to the top of the Middle Miocene or 27.30000 to 11.63000 Ma
Collections (8 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Oligocene | Australia (Northern Territory) | B. sp. (135704) | |
| Aquitanian - Burdigalian | Australia (Queensland) | B. fangaroo (106497) | |
| Middle Miocene | Australia (Northern Territory) | B. camfieldensis (13314) B. nalima (92839 106503 137618 137791) | |
| Middle Miocene | Australia (Queensland) | B. gregoriensis (181323) |