1862/02/01 by Thomas Henry Huxley · 2 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
paper · doi:10.1144/gsl.jgs.1862.018.01-02.56
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A short time since, I was requested by Dr. Cotton, F.G.S., to examine a series of Australian fossils in his collection, which were procured by Mr. Isaacs from Gowrie, in the district of the Darling Downs in Queensland, the same locality from which other specimens in the Hunterian and British Museums were obtained. These fossils consisted of numerous teeth and fragments of jaws of Macropus Atlas and M. Titan ; part of the upper jaw of a new species of Kangaroo, as large as these, but allied to Lagorchestes and Hypsiprymnus ; with three lumbar vertebrae, a sacrum, portions of two innominate bones, three ossa calcis, and a right metatarsal of the great toe, belonging to these Marsupials. The metatarsal is remarkable for its short and stout proportions. But the most interesting among these remains were fragments of Diprotodon , comprising sundry molar teeth, a small portion of the right ramus of a lower jaw, and parts of the right and left upper jaws of two distinct individuals. Of these upper jaws, the former, which I shall call No. 1 (P1. XXl. fig. 1), contained the premolar in place and the socket of the succeeding molar, with one fang in place. Fortunately, among the detached teeth, I found the crown and principal fang of this molar, and the premolar of the other side of the same skull. The other or left upper jaw, No. 2 (fig. 4), has a very different colour and texture, from the nature of the ferruginous matrix in which