Skeleton of the Largest Australian Fossil Mammal, Diprotodon

Description

Accession[1975.0089] Consolidated Papers of Wilfrid Russell GrimwadePart of Item[2002.0003.00867] Photograph Album - National Museum of VictoriaPosition in SequencePage 22IdentifierUMA-ITE-2002000300395Extentnot specifiedScope and ContentSection of room in the National Museum of Victoria displaying Australian Fossils and Australian Collections. Various specimens housed in glass cabinets along the wall, each cabinet labeled including 'Invertebrates, Australian Vertebrates and Cretaceous with other cabinet labels not visible in photograph. Individual specimens labelled inside cabinets.

Running along the wall above the cabinets is a long cross section geological illustration with detail and titled "......Lake Victoria about 25 miles South-Westerly of Cape Howe". Centre of the photograph is a large prominent glass cabinet displaying a skeleton of a Diprotodon.

Inscription: "Skeleton of the Largest Australian Fossil Mammal, Diprotodon" printed beneath the photograph.Access StatusOpen for public accessRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2002.0003 Unit 0034Copyright StatusPublic domainConditions of Use and ReproductionThis item is out of copyright. Please acknowledge the University of Melbourne Archives as the source of this material.MenuBrowse digitised items | Available online | Items in the public domain

Provenance

CreatorNational Museum of Victoria

Dates

Date1950

Description Control

Previous System ID2002.0003.00395Format NumberPA/55 page 22UMAIC IDUMA/I/3465

Characteristics

Genre/FormPhotographic printsDimensions16.5 x 21.8 cm

Subjects

SubjectAnimals - Mammals - Marsupial megafauna - DiprotodonsMammals, Fossil--Victoria--Melbourne--PhotographsNational Museum of Victoria--Photographs

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