PHASCOLOTHERIUM. 



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MARSUPIALIA. 



ENTOMOPHAGA. 



Fig. 20. 



PHASCOLOTHERIUM BUCKLANDI. 



Genus PHASCOLOTHEEIUM. 



Phascolotherium Bucklandi. 



OWEN, Geol. Trans. 2nd Series, vol. vi. p. 



58, pi. 6. 

 BRODERIP, Zool. Journ. vol. iii. p. 408. 



ALTHOUGH the evidence of the very slight degree of 

 inflection of the angular process in the lower jaw of the 

 Amphitherium Prevostii, (fig. 15,) turns the scale in favour 

 of its affinities to the placental Insectivora, yet the range 

 of variety, to which the character of the inflected angle of 

 the jaw is subject in the different existing genera of 

 Marsupialia, warns us against laying undue stress upon its 

 feeble development in the extinct genus of the Oolitic epoch, 

 and incites us to look with redoubled interest at whatever 

 other indications of a Marsupial character may be present 

 in the fossil remains of other genera and species of Mam- 

 malia that have been detected in the Stonesfield slate. 

 i In that remarkably perfect and interesting specimen, 

 presented to the British Museum by Mr. Broderip, its 



