Abstract:In this paper the author describes teeth of a new genus of Mammal, representing a species of the size of the
Thylacoleo
or
Nototherium
, specimens of which teeth have been discovered in three distinct and remote localities in Australia. In shape the teeth resemble the scalpriform incisors of the upper jaw of the in the microscopic structure of the dentine there is a nearer resemblance to that in the incisor of the large extinct form of wombat (
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