Sthenurus ("strong tail") is an extinct genus of kangaroos. With a length around 3 m (10 ft), some species were twice as large as modern extant species.
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DISCOVERY
NOTICE OF A NEW FOSSIL EXTINCT SPECIES OF KANGAROO, Sthenurus minor (Owen).
[Supplemental to the notice of the new fossil bird. Dromornis Australis (Owen). By the Rev. W. B. CLARKE, M.A., F.R.S., &c]
At the close of the paper on Dromornis I mentioned that I had revived from Mr. Lowe, of Goree, a portion of a skull of an extinct marsupial, which I was informed came from a lead in the neighbourhood of the "pelvis" of the new fossil bird. I sent them in the same box to Professor Owen, who has reported on the skull in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London of April 17, 1877.
As that report may not fall in the way of some members of the society, it may be useful to make the existence of the new marsupial known to them by quotations from Professor Owen's remarks which will justify my expressed opinion of the value of the neighbourhood of Gulgong, Home Rule, and Mudgee for paleontological researches, and at the same time assist in extending information on
the marsupials of Australia.
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* I have recently (November 21, 1877) been-informed that the skull came from the Talbragar country In that district other marsupial relics have been found. I have left the statement in the text with this correction, as the only way of explaining with this note the change of habitat, and in justice to Professor Owen, who received the first statement through me.
