XIX. Pelvic characters of thylacoleo carnifex

Abstract

Since the communication of the 1st February, 1883, “On the Affinities of Thylacoleo,” I have received, through the favour of the Trustees of the Museum of Natural History, Sydney, and the care of the accomplished keeper, E. P Ramsay, Esq., F. L. S., a second consignment of the palaeontological results of his exploration of the Breccia Caverns of Wellington Valley, New South Wales. Besides additional confirmation of the dental, mandibular, antibrachial, ungual, and other osteal characters of Thylacoleo, these accessory specimens afford further evidence of the carnivorous modifications of parts of the skeleton. Of these a well-marked one is yielded by the pelvis (Plate 46, fig. 1).