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Taxonomy
Sciurus ballovianus was named by Cope (1881). Its type specimen is AMNH 6961, a partial skull (A skull, with M1 and M2 and without the occipital region, and parts of right and left mandibular rami), and it is a 3D body fossil.
It was recombined as Miosciurus ballovianus by Black (1963).
It was recombined as Miosciurus ballovianus by Black (1963).
Synonymy list
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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.
†Miosciurus ballovianus Cope 1881
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Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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M. D. Bryant 1945 | Small size. Skull flattened dorsally and wide interorbitally; muzzle short and narrow; infraorbital foramen a narrow slit; masseteric fossa ends anteriorly below anterior margin of m1; mental foramen near dorsal border of posterior part of diastema. Anterior cingula of m1 and m2 large, posterior cingula small; incisors strongly compressed. |