. Australasian fossils, a students' manual of palaeontology. Paleontology. 294 AUSTRALASIAN FOSSILS. very large and trenchant, whilst the canine and two anterior premolars are small and functionless: the lower jaw has also a pair of large first incisors, behind which are two small premolars, and an enormous chisel-edged last premolar biting against a similar tooth in the upper jaw (Fig. 146).. Fig. 148— Wynyardia bassiana, Spencer. Upper Cainozoic (Turritella bed). Table Cape, Tasmania. 2/7th nai. size. (Casts in Nat. Mtis. Coll.) Oldest Known Marsupial. The oldest marsupial found in Australia
. Australasian fossils, a students' manual of palaeontology. Paleontology. 294 AUSTRALASIAN FOSSILS. very large and trenchant, whilst the canine and two anterior premolars are small and functionless: the lower jaw has also a pair of large first incisors, behind which are two small premolars, and an enormous chisel-edged last premolar biting against a similar tooth in the upper jaw (Fig. 146).. Fig. 148— Wynyardia bassiana, Spencer. Upper Cainozoic (Turritella bed). Table Cape, Tasmania. 2/7th nai. size. (Casts in Nat. Mtis. Coll.) Oldest Known Marsupial. The oldest marsupial found in Australia is pro- bably Wynyardia bassiana (Fig. 147), whose remains occurred in the Turrit ella-bed at Table Cape, which is either of Miocene or Lower Pliocene age. This stratum occurs above the well-known Crassatellites- bed (Miocene) of that locality. So far as can be gathered from its incomplete dentition, Wynyardia represents an annectant form between the Diproto- donts and the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945. Melbourne, London [etc. ] G. Robertson & Company Propy. ltd.
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