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I.—On an Outline of the Skull, Basal View, of Thylacoleo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Owen
Owen
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Superintendent of the Natural History Departments in the British Museum.
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I have just received from Mr. C. H. Hartmann, of the “Range Nurseries, Toowoomba, Queensland,” a neighbour of my friend Mr. G. F. Bennett, to whom I am indebted for fossil remains from that locality (Megalania, e.g.), an outline of the entire skull of a Thylacoleo. It is a basal view of the skull in which the teeth of the upper jaw are indicated in situ, determinativeof the genus and apparently species. The writer states, “I have only just drawn a pencil outline round the skull soas to give you the right dimensions1—the most remarkable appearance is that there is scarcely any brain, bu very strong and thick bones.”

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Geological Magazine , Volume 10 , Issue 7 , July 1883 , pp. 289
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1883

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1 The details, wanting in the outline figure sent by Mr. Hartmann of the palatal view of the skull of Thylacoleo, have been, as far as it was possible, carefully filled in by the artist, Miss Woodward, from the actual specimens in the British Museum (Natural History).—H.W.

2 For further references to Thylacoleo see the following papers:—R. Owen, On the Fossil Mammals of Australia. Part I. Description of a mutilated skull of a larpre marsupial carnivore (Thylacoleo carnifex Owen) from a calcareous conglomerate stratum, 80 miles S.W. of Melbourne, Victoria (1858), Phil. Trans. 1859, pp. 309–322; Ann. Nat. Hist. iv. 1859, pp. 63–64. Part II. Description of an almost entire skull of Thylacoleo carnifex. Owen: Roy. Soc. Proc. xiv. 1865, pp. 343–344; Phil. Trans. 1866, pp. 73–82; Ann. Nat. Hist. 1865, pp. 130–131. Part IV Dentition and Mandible of Thylacoleo carnifex, with remarks on the arguments for its herbivority (1870), Phil. Trans. 1871, pp. 213–266; Dentition and fore limb, Phil. Trans. 1883, Proc. Boy. Soc. No. 224,1883, and on Pelvis of Thylacoleo, Roy. Soe. April 26, 1883.