Abstract

In this paper the author communicates descriptions, with figures of the fossil remains at his command, of Diprotodon australis , which have been received from various localities in Australia, since the first announcement of the genus, founded on a fragment of the lower jaw and tusk, described and figured in the 'Appendix' to Sir Thos. Mitchell's ‘Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia,’ 8vo, 1838. The fossils in question include the entire cranium and lower jaw with most of the teeth, showing the dental formula of:— i .3–3/1–1, c . 0–0/0–0, m . 5–5/5–5=28; portions of jaws and teeth exemplifying characteristics of age and sex; many bones of the trunk and extremities.

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