balbarid

balbarid

English

Noun

balbarid (plural balbarids)

1. (zoology) Any member of the family †Balbaridae of extinct kangaroos.
   • 2004, Tim Flannery, Country: A Continent, a Scientist & Kangaroo, Text Publishing, page 118,

     His research, which has focused on the few partial kangaroo skeletons found, has provided insights into why the bulungamayine kangaroos were so successful while the balbarids vanished.

   • 2010, Stephen Jackson, Karl Vernes, Kangaroo: A portrait of an extraordinary marsupial, Allen & Unwin, page 15,

     The other interesting feature of the balbarids is that they may not have hopped because the forelimbs and hindlimbs were of similar length and they had the first digit on each hind foot, similar to the Musky Rat-kangaroo.

   • 2012, Karen H. Black, et al., The Rise of Australian Marsupials, John A. Talent (editor), Earth and Life: Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals and Biogeographic Perturbations Through Time, Springer, page 1026,

     As in the late Oligocene, the most diverse macropodoids of the early Miocene are balbarids.

Translations

extinct marsupial of family Balbaridae