Teeth of the Snail-Eating Marsupial (IMAGE)

University of New South Wales

Teeth of the Snail-Eating Marsupial

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These are maxilla of the young malleodectid -- a snail-eating marsupial -- found in the fossil cave deposit at Riversleigh. Because this is a juvenile, the massive premolar is still unerupted below the tooth row.

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Karen Black and Suzanne Hand/UNSW

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