balbarid

plural balbarids

1. biologyAny member of the family †Balbaridae of extinct kangaroos.

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

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

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   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.

   2004, Tim Flannery, Country: A Continent, a Scientist & Kangaroo, Text Publishing, page 118

   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.

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