Bones from a cave in Wellington Valley, NSW, Australia

Drawings of fossil mammal bones from a cave in Wellington Valley, New South Wales, Australia, by Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (1792-1855), which accompanied the paper: Mitchell, T L. An account of the limestone caves at Wellington Valley, Proceedings of the Geological Society vol 1 (1831), pp321-322. This sheet shows the jaw and limb bones of Dugong (corrected to Diprodotodon opatum), Dasyurus/Didelphis urina and Wombat/Phascolomys Mitchellii. Pencil drawing on paper

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