PLEISTOCENE POSSIL VERTEBRATES FROM THE 
FITZROY RIVER, WEST KIMBERLEY, W.A. 
By L. Glauert, F.G.S., W.A. Museum, Perth. 
{Bead 8th March , 1921.-") 
Through the good offices of Mr. Leslie Kingsmill, the Trustees 
have received an interesting collection of remains of Pleistocene 
Vertebrates obtained in the course of excavating a tank on Quambun 
Station, Fitzrov (Tossing, about 170 miles by road from Derby. 
Mr. E. S. Birch, the donor, states that the site of the tank is in 
a “slight depression covered with Bon timber (Coolibah), between 
fairly high sand hills that run S.V . by W.” The first part of the 
excavation was in a stiff, dark slate-coloured clay five feet thick; 
this was followed by “conglomerate tightly cemented together,” 
which varied in thickness and covered the lighter and softer bone- 
bearing clay. 
As the work was done by ploughs, most of the bones are in a 
fragmentary condition, the only perfect ones being vertebrae and 
the bones of the manus and pes. In consequence of this and because 
of our lack of knowledge of the appendicular skeleton of extinct 
Macropods, etc., the number of specimens that can be identified with 
certainty is comparatively few. 
It is interesting to be able to report the discovery of remains 
of an extinct Crocodile, though the presence of this reptile might be 
expected in the tropical part of W.A., as it is already known from 
X ortliern Q ueensland. 
Macropus anak , Owen : An extinct kangaroo, has a very wide 
range, for it has been recorded from all the Australian States except 
Victoria. In Western Australia it has previously been obtained in 
the Mammoth Cave, near Cape Leeuwin and Balladonia. 
( 1 roc.odilus sp. 
The identified specimens consist of two teeth and a nuchal scute. 
Phase olonus gig as, Owen. 
Fragments of a right upper incisor and a left lower incisor, 
pieces of ribs, and an imperfect atlas vertebra represent this species 
in the collection. 
* By permission of the Trustees of tbe Museum, 
