Crossword-Solution: NOTOTHERIUM
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| Nototherium | n. | An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia. |
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| an extinct Pleistocene rhinoceros-sized marsupial of the genus Nototherium, related to the wombats | 1 answer |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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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.
The fossils from this section, as determined by Professor Owen, are "Diprotodon Australis, Macropus titan, Thylacoles, Phascolomys, Nototherium," crocodile teeth, etc.
Other important fossil remains in the Museum are those of the thylacoleo (two species), diprotodon, procoptodon, protemnodon, palorchestes, macropus titan, nototherium, phascolomys.
Among the more remarkable extinct genera are _Diprotodon_, a huge thick-limbed animal allied to the kangaroos, but nearly as large as an elephant; _Nototherium_, having characters of _Macropus_ and _Phascolarctos_ combined, and as large as a rhinoceros; and _Thylacoleo_, a phalanger-like marsupial nearly as large as a lion, and supposed by Professor Owen to have been of carnivorous habits, though this opinion is not held by other naturalists.
Among the extinct genera are _Protemnodon_ and _Sthenurus_, which are more allied to the tree-kangaroos of New Guinea than to living Australian species; the gigantic _Diprotodon_, a kangaroo nearly as large as an elephant; and _Nototherium_, of smaller size.