Marsvp ialia — Diprotoclon. 



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Wombats and the far greater form of Diprotoclon is Nototherium, Wall-case, 

 •which may have been as big as a horse in size, but bulkier and No - 2 ?. 

 shorter, with three incisors above on each side, whereas in the Table-case, 



-rrr • NO 15 



Wombats there is only one. 



Fig. 101.— (a.) Skull and lower jaw of a gigantic extinct Marsupial, Diprotoclon 

 a ustralis (Owen), from the Newer Tertiary Deposits, Australia. 

 (b.) A human skull placed beside it to show comparative size. 

 (Wall-case, No. 21.) 



In Diprotoclon the dentition is the same as in Nototherium. Diprotodon. 

 This huo-e animal had a skull measuring- nearly three feet in "Wall-case, 

 length, and it probably exceeded the Rhinoceros in bulk. 



No. 27. 



Fig. 102. — Skull and lower jaw »f Tliylacoleo cumifex (Owen), from the Pleistocene 

 of Australia. J natural size. 



In the Table-case are numerous remains of a very remark- 

 able extinct genus of Diprotodont Marsupial, named by Professor 

 Sir Richard Owen Thylacoleo carnifex, and supposed by him to 

 (1876) G 



Table-cases, 

 No. 4. 



