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Royal Society, June 15.-“On the Fossil Mammals of Aus-I tratia. Part V. Genus Nototherium Ow.“ By Prof. R. Owen, i F.R.S. The genus of large extinct Marsupial herbivores which forms the subject of the present paper, was founded on specimens transmitted (in 1842) to the author by the Surveyor-General of Australia, Sir Thomas Mitchell, C. B. They consisted of mutilated fossil mandibles and teeth. Subsequent specimens confirmed the distinction of Nototherium from Diprotodon, and more especially exemplified a singular and extreme modification of the cranium of the former genus. A detailed description is given of this part from specimens of portions of the skull in the British Museum, and from a cast and photographs of the entire cranium in the Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales. The descriptions of the mandible, and of the dentition in both upper and lower jaws, are taken from actual specimens in the British Museum, in the Museum of the Natural History at Worcester, and in the Museum at Adelaide, S. Australia, all of which have been confided to the author for this purpose. The results of comparisons of these fossils of Nototherium with the answerable parts in Diprotodon, Macropus, Phascolarctos, and“Phascolomys, are detailed.
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Societies and Academies . Nature 4, 173–176 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/004173b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/004173b0