Studies in Tasmanian mammals, living and extinct. Number X. Giant wallaby.

Abstract

As is generally known, the animals called by Owen Protemnodon anak, Protenmodon og, and in part also Sthenurus atlas, now figure upon the lists as Macropus anak and Sthenurus atlas. In the British Museum Catalogue of Fossil Marsupials the late Richard Lydekker says at page 216: — "The following specimens include those referred by Owen to "Protemnodon anak," and of the ten folios that follow, attention is drawn to No. 38,753—a left ramus from Queensland which Owen figured in Phil. Trans., 1874, plate 25, figs. 7 to 10. From the (recently acquired) material Mr. K. M. Harrisson obtained at King Island, we select for description a similar left ramus, that has no other skull associates, but supplies us with various parts of the skeleton. The premolar is missing, and the last molar has been badly mutilated, but the fangs of both broken teeth supply useful data.