Write to the booksellersOn the Fossil Mammals of Australia. - Part V. Genus Nothotherium. Received May 8, - Read June 15, 1871.
(London, Taylor and Francis, 1873). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", 1872. Vol. 162. Pp. 41-82 a. 10 litghographed plates. Clean fine.
First appearance of this classic paper on the genus Nototherium, in which Owen reconstructs the animal based on the findings of teeth and mandibles.Nototherium (""Southern Beast) is an extinct genus of marsupial. This mammal had hypsodont molars. It was a relative of the larger Diprotodon and a distant kin to modern wombats too. It was hunted by megalania and Thylacoleo carnifex.
On the Fossil Mammals of Australia. - Part VI. Genus Phascolomys, Geoffr. Recieved September 14,- Read December 7, 1871.
(London, Taylor and Francis, 1873). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", 1872. Vol. 162. Pp. 173-196, textillustr. a. 7 lithographed plates.
First appearance of a classical paper in which Owen describes the finds of the remains of an extinct womabat comparing them with living species.
