EXTINCT ANIMALS.
INTERESTING DISCOVERIES IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA. THE PLEISTOCENE Received March 9, 10 a.m. PERTH, March 9. The Government Paleontologist has returned from the Margaret river, bringing with him 2,000 specimens of the pleistocene age, mostly in a fragmentary state, but including many perfect, or nearly perfect, bones and teeth. A curEory examination reveals the presence of remains of the diprodoton and also of extinct species of the macropus, nototherium and phascolomys, the two last-named genera biitig new records for Western Australia.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3134, 10 March 1909, Page 5
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82EXTINCT ANIMALS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3134, 10 March 1909, Page 5
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