Taxonomy and palaeobiology of the largest-ever marsupial, Diprotodon Owen, 1838 (Diprotodontidae, Marsupialia)
Author
Price, Gilbert J.
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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2008
2008-06-30
153
2
369
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https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-lookup/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00387.x
journal article
10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00387.x
0024-4082
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REDDESTONE CREEK
DIPROTODON
DENTAL MORPHOMETRIC AND MORPHOLOGICAL
COMPARISON
The Reddestone Creek
Diprotodon
assemblage is similar to that of the Myall Creek assemblage in that most of the material is represented by isolated teeth rather than dentaries or maxillae. Almost 50
Diprotodon
teeth (mostly isolated) were examined from the assemblage. Reddestone Creek
Diprotodon
teeth are morphologically similar to those of other assemblages examined and do not warrant additional description. The means for most measurements of molar dimensions vary less than 1–2% in comparison with those of the Darling Downs, and the means overlap at less than one standard deviation (
Tables 2
,
3
).