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AUSTRALIA'S lack of abundant Permian and Triassic tetrapod vertebrate fauna has long been an enigma to palaeontologists. Both labyrinthodont and reptilian remains are common in South America, Southern Africa and Madagascar, and fairly common in India, while part of a labyrinthodont mandible has recently been reported from Antarctica1. Apart from a recent find in Western Australia, and a small collection from Tasmania, the few described Australian labyrinthodonts have been isolated specimens, while a single individual from Tasmania is the only Australian pre-Jurassic reptile.
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BARTHOLOMAI, A., HOWIE, A. Vertebrate Fauna from the Lower Trias of Australia. Nature 225, 1063 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/2251063a0
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