. A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of geology and palontology in the British Museum (Natural history) ... With 6 plates and 88 text-figures . size,the general shape of Diproiodon must have been much likethat of the existing phalangers of Australia, and it seemsto be related both to these animals and to the kangaroos. Wall-ease , 14a, 15. 78 GUIDE TO JllK FOSSIL :MA:\ and lUltDS. Wall-case The skull (Fig. 72) measures about three feet iu length. TheTable-cases Miiii*^^ii^g teeth are ridged, much like those of a iminitive14, 14a, 15. elephant, such
. A guide to the fossil mammals and birds in the Department of geology and palontology in the British Museum (Natural history) ... With 6 plates and 88 text-figures . size,the general shape of Diproiodon must have been much likethat of the existing phalangers of Australia, and it seemsto be related both to these animals and to the kangaroos. Wall-ease , 14a, 15. 78 GUIDE TO JllK FOSSIL :MA:\ and lUltDS. Wall-case The skull (Fig. 72) measures about three feet iu length. TheTable-cases Miiii*^^ii^g teeth are ridged, much like those of a iminitive14, 14a, 15. elephant, such as Dinotlierium. The toes are five in numl)er liut remarkal)ly sliort and The remains of kangaroos from tlie river deposits of14, 15. Queensland and Xew .South Wales, and from the WellingtonCaves, Xew South Wales, indicate animals of various sizesfrom that of the smallest living species to that of a unique original collection described by Owen is ex-hibited in Table-cases 14, 15. The largest extinct speciesreferred to Procoptodon and Palorchcf-tcs, though essentiallykangaroos, had the fore and hind liml)S less dis]irn])ortii)nate. Fig. 72.—Skull and lower jaw of a gigantic extinct Marsupial, Dijyrotodonaiistralis, from the Pleistocene of Queensland ; with a Human Skull(b) to show comparative size. (Wall-case 27.) in size than any li\ing member of the family, and would])roljably be unable to leap. Table-case The largest of the extinct wombats, found with Dipro- ^^^- fodoii and the large kangaroos, is Fhasco/onus, oH which the lower jaw and upper front teeth are shown in Talde-case 14a. It was about as large as an ox. Here are also numerous remains of wombats of more ordinary size. Table-case The phalangers seem to be represented among fossils bythe so-called pouched lion of Owen, Thylacoho carnifex,which is also found with Diprotodon and the large kangaroosin the Australian river deposits and caverns. Numerousunique fragments are exhibited, with
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