Australian Museum Journal Palaeontological notes no. 1. Macropus titan Owen and Thylacoleo carnifex Owen
- Shortform:
- Anderson, 1929, Rec. Aust. Mus. 17(1): 35–49
- Author(s):
- Anderson, C.
- Year published:
- 1929
- Title:
- Palaeontological notes no. 1. Macropus titan Owen and Thylacoleo carnifex Owen
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 17
- Issue:
- 1
- Start page:
- 35
- End page:
- 49
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.17.1929.752
- Language:
- English
- Plates:
- plates xvii–xviii
- Date published:
- 20 June 1929
- Cover date:
- 20 June 1929
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- MAMMALIA; PALAEONTOLOGY
- Digitized:
- 11 September 2009
- Reference number:
- 752
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (96kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (4807kb PDF)
Abstract
Macropus titan Owen, in Mitchell's Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, 2nd Edit., ii, 1838, p. 360. Macropus titan Lydekker, Brit. :Mus. Cat. Foss. Mamms., Part v, 1887, p. 225. Macropus magister De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, x, 1894, p. 120.
On a recent visit to the Wellington Caves, New South Wales, a well known depository of fossil marsupials, Mr. G. C. Clutton of the Museum Staff and myself obtained the greater part of a macropod skull, which was firmly embedded in the red cave earth at a depth of about seventy feet. On examination this was found to conform closely to Owen's description of Macropus titan, a species first recorded from the same locality.