Studies in Tasmanian mammals, living and extinct. Number III. Nototherium mitchelli. Its evolutionary trend - the skull, and such structures as related to the nasal horn

Abstract

In a previous contribution we have traced the history of the genus Nototherium, and have also described the osteology of the cervical vertebrae. As a natural sequence we now desire to place on record certain data gathered from a detailed examination of the skull itself. Before proceeding further, however, it might be as well if we explained our aims as regards the work generally