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Records of tle Mistralian Museum (22, No. 2 ; 1949) includes an article concerning the supposed human molar from the Wellington Caves of New South Wales. The tooth, first described in 1870, has been discussed by many authors since that date, all of whom accepted the human origin of the fragment. Dr. H. H. Finlayson has recently re-examined the fragment and is of the opinion that it was derived from the Pleistocene macropod Macropus, a giant wallaby, remains of which are already known from the Wellington Caves (see also Nature, August 14, 1948, p. 256).
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Pleistocene Wallaby Tooth from Australia. Nature 164, 649 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164649c0
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