FOSSIL REMAINS IN WESTRALIA.
IMPOETAKT DISCOVERIES. [Press Association.— Copyeioht.] (Received 9.40 a.m.PERTH, Tuesday. The State Government Paleontologist has returned from tho Margaret river bringing 2000 spociiuens of fossils of the pleistocenes ago, mostly In a fragmentary state, but including many perfect or nearly perfect bones and teeth. A cursory examination reveals the presence of remains of a diprodoton (mammoth kangaroo), an extinct species of mncropus (kangaroo), and a phaseolomys (wombat), the two last genera being new record* for 'Wpstralia.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 9 March 1909, Page 2
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79FOSSIL REMAINS IN WESTRALIA. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 9 March 1909, Page 2
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