Balbaridae: Difference between revisions

{{Taxobox

| name = Balbaridae<ref name=msw3>{{MSW3 Groves|pages=56-58}}</ref>

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| regnum = [[Animal]]ia

| phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]]

| classis = [[Mammal]]ia

| infraclassis = [[Marsupialia]]

| ordo = [[Diprotodontia]]

| subordo = [[Macropodiformes]]

| familia = '''Balbaridae'''

| familia_authority = [[Benjamin Kear|Kear]] and [[Bernard Cooke|Cooke]], 1999

The Balbaridae are an extinct family of basal [[Macropodoidea]]. The [[synapomorphies]] are divided into two areas, the [[Tooth|dental]] and [[cranium|cranial]]. The dental area of this taxa can be described as having the molar [[lophodont]] and [[brachyodont]] with a hypo[[lophid]] formed by [[Tongue|lingually]] displaced component of posthypo[[cristid]] and linked to a [[Cheek|buccal]] crast from the [[entoconid]]. Molars have a hypo[[cingulid]], first lower molar compressed with the [[forlink]] absent. First incisor with [[Tongue|lingual]] and [[Dorsal (anatomy)|dorsal]] [[enamel ringlet]]s. The third lower [[premolar]] of some taxa have a posterobuccal cusp (cusp at the back close to the cheek). The skull is defined by four shared characteristics, a large sinuses, [[postorbital]] [[Lateral (anatomy)|lateral]] constriction of the skull, a [[hypertrophy]] of the [[mastoid process]]es and no [[auditory bulla]] formed by an inflated [[tympanic wing]] of the [[alisphenoid]]<ref>Kear, B.P. & Cooke, B.N., 2001:12!20. A review of macropodoid systematics with the inclusion of a new family. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 25, 83-101. ISSN 0810-8889</ref>

Subfamily [[wikt:indeterminate|indeterminate]]

Subfamily [[Naambarinae]]

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{{Diprotodontia|M.1}}