Prodromus of the paleontology of Victoria; or, Figures and descriptions of Victorian organic remains ..

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Title: Prodromus of the paleontology of Victoria; or, Figures and descriptions of Victorian organic remains ..
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Geological Survey of Victoria McCoy, Frederick, 1823-1899
Subjects: Paleontology
Publisher: Melbourne, G. Skinner, acting government printer London, Trübner and Co.
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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also represents one of the sunple, conical, anterior teethof the Miocene Tertiary extinct genus of Wliales, Squalodon, fromthe Miocene Tertiary beds of Waurn Ponds, nearGeelong, discoveredby Mr. Nelson of that place, who enabled me thus to add to ourprevious illustration of the lobed, posterior teeth of Squalodon Wil-kmsoni (McCoy), figured in our second Decade. The sixth and seventh plates give some frirther important fossilIMollusca, characteristic of the Upper Silurian formations, fromGippsland. The eighth plate gives figures of a new and abundant species ofHinnites, very characteristic of the Victorian Miocene Tertiarydeposits. And the two last plates represent some of the more interestingand widely distributed of our Tertiary Sea Urchins. The four remaining Decades required to complete the work willcontinue the illustration of the fossil collections made in the courseof the Geological Survey of the colony. Frederick McCoy.2ud December 1878. (■* ) Fill PftL/EONTOLOGY OF VICTORIA
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-~j;U?neii da. A Uxn Tvof.MJ^Coy direa:^ C Iraeaei. & C° wrw Tertiary.) PALEONTOLOGY OF VICTORIA. (Mammalia. Plate LI. MACROPUS TITAN (Ow.). (Genus MACROPUS (Shaw). (Sub-kingd. Vertebrata. Class Mammalia. Order Marsu-pialia. Fam. Macropodidaa.) 3—3 0-0 1-1 4-4 Gen. Char.—Dental formula :—i., _ ; c, _ ; p.m., _ . ; m., , _ =: 28. Cutting edge of upper incisors in one line ; outer one large, grooved by one or two folds of enamelextending from outer side obliquely forwards and inwards. The premolar displaces the 2nd and3rJ deciduous molars, leaving d^ and m to m^. The Kangaroos or bilophodont marsupials having two transverse ridges on the molar teethare distinguishable as a group by that character from the Rat^Kangaroos or Bettongias, in whichthe molars are quadrituberculate. The premolar, like the anterior deciduous molar, has the crownlengthened antero-posteriorly, with two roots and a subtrenchant margin ; the anterior andposterior margins in some species are thickened, andprodromusofpaleo61879geol

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