Southern hairy-nosed wombat subfossil bones
Maker
Frederic Wood Jones (b.1879, d.1954)
Date
May 1926
Description
Box of subfossil bones from southern hairy-nosed wombats (Lasiorhinus latifrons). The box contains seven mandible fragments, seven isolated teeth contained in a ziplock bag, six humeri (two complete and four partial), one femur, one tibia, one radius, one ulna, and two scapulae (left and right). All bones are stained a chocolate brown colour. The fossils are from Kelly Hills Caves on Kangaroo Island, South Australia where the species is now locally extinct. They were collected by Frederic Wood Jones on his May 1926 visit to the island and the caves.
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