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Ballusia
Discussion
Erected in discussing the taxonomy of the wastebasket taxon Ursavus, used for many "primitive" ursine bears
Taxonomy
Ballusia was named by Ginsburg and Morales (1998).
It was assigned to Ursinae by Ginsburg and Morales (1998).
It was assigned to Ursinae by Ginsburg and Morales (1998).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1998 | Ballusia Ginsburg and Morales |
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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. †Ballusia Ginsburg and Morales 1998
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†Ballusia elmensis Stehlin 1917
†Ballusia orientalis QIU et al. 1985
†Ballusia zhegalloi Sotnikova et al. 2021
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| L. Ginsburg and J. Morales 1998 | rsidae primitif de petite taille, voisin d’ Ursuvus et d’Hemicyon,
mais se distinguant d’Hemicyon par des molaires superieures nettement plus longues ; sur Mt la Cretemediale (qui passepar le protocone et le metaconule) est plus distante de la ligne paracone-metacone,tandisque le cingulum lingua1est plus large, plus court et dessineplus ou moins un arc en vue occlusale.M2 est nettement elliptique, avec un cingulum lingual large (commesur Mt) et plus stpare de la c&e mtdiale que chez Ursuvus,tandis que l’aire de masticationposterieure,situeeentre le metacbneet le metaconule,est plus courte et plus large. La Ml ressembleplus a celles d’Hemicyon et Plithocyon qu’a celles d’lJrsavus, avec un trigonide encore assezhaut |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Nowak 1991, Hendy et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Collections (6 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Miocene | France | Ursavus elmensis (200296) | |
| Burdigalian | France (Maine-et-Loire) | Ursavus elmensis (48069) | |
| Burdigalian - Tortonian | France | B. hareni (187579) | |
| MN 3 | Germany (Bavaria) | Ursavus elmensis (68040) | |
| Orleanian | France | B. hareni (142146) | |
| MN 5 | Germany | Ursavus elmensis (46955) |