Note on the occurrence of the sand-rock containing bones of extinct species of marsupials (Emu, Kangaroo, Wombat, etc.,) on King Island, Bass Strait, Tasmania
Abstract
During a recent visit to King Island I was, through the kindness of Mr. J. M. Bowling, fortunate in being able to make a cursory examination of the deposits in which the bones of extinct species of Marsupials occur, and to obtain a small collection of the fossils which are now deposited in the Australian Museum, Sydney.
It has not previously been observed that the wind-blown sand forming the recent dunes is not the original matrix of the fossils. Hence this note...