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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 6

Implacentalia. — Marsupialia. — Rhizophaga.—Wombat-Tribe. — Phascolomys

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Implacentalia.

Marsupialia.

Rhizophaga.—Wombat-Tribe.

Phascolomys.

Wombats are well represented in a fossil state, and existed to the number of twenty species at least during post-pleiocene times. A modern Wombat of 90lbs. weight is considered heavy, but some of the ancient fossil animals, judging from the size of their teeth and bones, must have been more than twice as bulky. The Wombats are closely allied to the Phalangers (the "Opossums and Plying Squirrels"), and are distinguished from all other Marsupials by their incisor teeth, which, like those of the rodents, number two above and two below.