nototherium

British

/ ˌnəʊtəʊˈθɪərɪəm /

noun

an extinct Pleistocene rhinoceros-sized marsupial of the genus Nototherium, related to the wombats

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Etymology

Origin of nototherium

C19: New Latin, from Greek notos south (referring to their discovery in the S hemisphere) + thērion beast

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Nototherium, nō-tō-thē′ri-um, n. a genus of gigantic fossil kangaroo-like marsupials, found in Australia.

From Project Gutenberg

The utter extinction of these gigantic species, comprising diprotodon, nototherium, and zygomaturus, and other species, grasseaters and flesheaters alike, can only be accounted for by a great change of climate, and great and long-continued droughts, reducing the herbage and causing the remaining living animals to crowd into the drying-up lagoons and lakes, there to become bogged in thousands, and die as the stock die in the waterholes after a long drought.

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The fossils from this section, as determined by Professor Owen, are “Diprotodon Australis, Macropus titan, Thylacoles, Phascolomys, Nototherium,” crocodile teeth, etc.

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They belong to the genera Diprotodon and Nototherium of Professor Owen.

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