Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Prodromus of the Palaeontology of Victoria, or Figures and Descriptions of the Victorian Organic Remains: Decade VII
In this seventh Decade, the first plate illustrates the remains proving the existence of the recent Dingo, or Native Dog, in the Pliocene and Pleistocene Tertiary periods of geology, probably long before the advent of man, and contemporary with the extinct genera of gigantic marsupials, the Diprotodon, Nototherium, and Thylacoleo while, as the figures show, there is no departure from the structure of the living examples.
It also includes figures of the lower jaw of the Tasmanian Devil, found with the above-named genera.
The two following plates illustrate such perfect skulls and teeth of the fossil Tasmanian Devil Sarcophilus ursinus) as can leave no doubt of the perfect identity of these remains, so common in the ossiferous caves and in the Pleistocene and Pliocene clays and sands of Victoria, with the species to which I refer them - a species still living in Tasmania in abundance, but which has never been seen or heard of in the living state on this continent in which these remains prove that it formerly abounded in the most recent Tertiary times.
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