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Professor Owen refers to the additional proof of the close relationship of the Mastodon to the Dinotherium, derived from the discovery of the two tusks of the lower jaw in the young individuals of the Mastodon, and the retention of one of these as a sexual distinction of the male in Mastodon gr'ganteus and he is of o inion that the highly ihtcrcst tng member of the antient una of Australia revealed by the remains above described must be referred, on their evidence, to the same natural family of gigantic Pachy derms as that which includes the Mastodons and the Dino theres, and to a species distinct from any at determined; but he, wisely as we think, abstains from t e imposition of any generic or cific name, until the requisite characters are obtained: t ese he has reason to expect will be forth coming from specimens about to be collected by the ener getic officer to whom zoologists are indebted for so many additions to the fossil fauna of New South Wales.
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Professor Owen refers to the additional proof of the close relationship of the Mastodon to the Dinotherium, derived from the discovery of the two tusks of the lower jaw in the young individuals of the Mastodon, and the retention of one of these as a sexual distinction of the male in Mastodon gr'ganteus and he is of o inion that the highly ihtcrcst tng member of the antient una of Australia revealed by the remains above described must be referred, on their evidence, to the same natural family of gigantic Pachy derms as that which includes the Mastodons and the Dino theres, and to a species distinct from any at determined; but he, wisely as we think, abstains from t e imposition of any generic or cific name, until the requisite characters are obtained: t ese he has reason to expect will be forth coming from specimens about to be collected by the ener getic officer to whom zoologists are indebted for so many additions to the fossil fauna of New South Wales.
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- ISBN 13 9780484061964
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