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Appendix. Modern Phascolarctos cinereus southeastern 
Queensland specimens examined. 
registration number 
location 
QMJ13610 
Yelarbon 
QMJ15156 
Jondaryan 
QMJ8119 
Yeronga 
QMJ1350 
Burleigh 
QMJ992 
10 miles W of Ipswich 
QMJ64 
Caboolture 
QMJ4668 
Caboolture 
QMJ10972 
Amberley 
QMJ3404 
Bribie Island 
QMJ3793 
Brisbane River, Bellevue 
QMJ 10034 
Moggill 
QMJ3835 
Chinchilla 
QMJ4370 
Chinchilla 
QMJ5749 
Range near Brisbane 
QMJ7118 
Camp Mountain near Brisbane 
QMJ 14981 
Cavern Pine Forest, Gold Coast 
QMJ7240 
Tamborine 
QMJ8811 
Toogoolawah 
QMJ8353 
West Burleigh 
QMJ 14982 
Mt. Tamborine 
