FOSSILISED JAW BONE.
TRACE OF EXTINCT KANGAROO. (Received 11 a.m.) BRISBANE, this day. The Queensland Museum has recen ed a fossil of the top of the jaw of a diprotodon (a genius of extinct kangaroos), which was found projecting fiom a bank of the Condamine River, 20 feet below the surface, following recent floods. No part of Australia has produced more fossilised remains than the Dalby district. Early marsupials must have existed there in large numbers and grown to enormous size-
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 115, 17 May 1934, Page 7
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81FOSSILISED JAW BONE. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 115, 17 May 1934, Page 7
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