Diprotodon, Owen, 1838

Price, Gilbert J., 2008, Taxonomy and palaeobiology of the largest-ever marsupial, Diprotodon Owen, 1838 (Diprotodontidae, Marsupialia), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 153 (2), pp. 369-397 : 383

REDDESTONE CREEK DIPROTODON

DENTAL MORPHOMETRIC AND MORPHOLOGICAL

COMPARISON

The Reddestone Creek Diprotodon assemblage is similar to that of the Myall Creek assemblage in that most of the material is represented by isolated teeth rather than dentaries or maxillae. Almost 50 Diprotodon teeth (mostly isolated) were examined from the assemblage. Reddestone Creek Diprotodon teeth are morphologically similar to those of other assemblages examined and do not warrant additional description. The means for most measurements of molar dimensions vary less than 1–2% in comparison with those of the Darling Downs, and the means overlap at less than one standard deviation ( Tables 2, 3).