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AUSTRALASIAN FOSSILS. 
TABLE CASES. 
These are arranged in order of Geological Ages, from 1 to 
45, beginning at the Sub-Recent or Holocene fossils and 
ending with the oldest, the Cambrian. 
The following specimens are of especial interest : — 
A fine series of shells of living species from raised beaches Cases 1 and 2. 
and sunken estuaries. 
Marsupial and other remains from Sub-recent and Cases 3 and 4. 
Pleistocene cave-floors, creek-beds, and sand-blows. 
Note the remains of the King Island extinct Emu 
(Dromaeus minor), the remains of Thylacoleo 
or Marsupial Lion, the Giant Kangaroos (Macropus 
titan and Procoptodon goliah ; also Nototherium). 
Fig. 13. Ideal Tasmanian Landscape in the Pleistocene Period. 
Showing extinct marsupials — Palorchestes, Nototherium , and Phascolonus. 
After Victor Henry. 
These cases contain Lower Pliocene fossils, including Cases 5 to 7. 
a fine series of fruits, wood, and leaves from the 
buried river silts of the Deep Leads. Also a fine 
