. Catalogue of the fossil Mammalia in the British museum, (Natural History). Mammals, Fossil. PHALAITGISTID^. 189 3P^eutJoc!)iru£; cautribolbulu^ (Kerr^). Syn. Didelphys eaudivolvula, Kerr^. Hah. New South "Wales and Queensland. M. 3651. Fragmeut of the right maxilla^ containing pm. 4 and m- 1; from a cave in the Wellington Valley, jS'ew South Wales. Presented hy the Trustees of the Australian Museum. Subfamily Thylacoleontin^. The lower incisor is but slightly proclivous, there is no lower canine, the true molars and early premolars are small and almost or quite functionless, while the l
. Catalogue of the fossil Mammalia in the British museum, (Natural History). Mammals, Fossil. PHALAITGISTID^. 189 3P^eutJoc!)iru£; cautribolbulu^ (Kerr^). Syn. Didelphys eaudivolvula, Kerr^. Hah. New South "Wales and Queensland. M. 3651. Fragmeut of the right maxilla^ containing pm. 4 and m- 1; from a cave in the Wellington Valley, jS'ew South Wales. Presented hy the Trustees of the Australian Museum. Subfamily Thylacoleontin^. The lower incisor is but slightly proclivous, there is no lower canine, the true molars and early premolars are small and almost or quite functionless, while the last premolar is of enormous size, laterally compressed, and trenchant; it is not known whether this tooth was preceded by a milk-molar. Genus THYLACOLEO, Owen I Dentition :—I. |, C. \, Pm. |, ^. |. This is the only genus of the subfamily. The structure of the foot is unknown. Some of the functionless teeth were deciduous, and perhaps sometimes altogether wanting. Fig. ThylacoUo carnifex.~T\xQ skiill; from the Pleistocene of Austraha, Thylacoleo carnifex, Owen^. This is the type and only species, and is much larger than any existing member of the family. Hah. Australia. 1 Linn. Anim. Kingd. p. 196 (ll'^'l).—Didelphys. '^ hoc. cit. 3 In Gervais's ' Zool. et Pal. Fran9aises,' 1st ed. pt. i. p. 192 (1849-52). -* Phil. Trans. 1859, p. 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 British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Geology; Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915. London, Printed by order of the Trustees
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