WARENDJA WAKEFIELD 1 A NEW GENUS OF WOMBAT MARSUPIALIA VOMBATIDAE FROM PLEISTOCENE SEDIMENTS IN McEACHERNS CAVE WESTERN VICTORIA
Two mandibles and six isolated teeth recovered from Pleistocene sediments in McEacherns Cave, western Victoria, represent a new genus and species of a morphologically primitive wombat. It combines unrooted, slightly bilobed molars showing little curvature, with a slender ramus, unlused symphysis, weak development of the masseteric and pterygoid fossae, a low set articular condyle, and a broad coronoid process. The associated faunal assemblage includes typical later Pleistocene taxa, such as Zvgomaturus triiobus, Sthenurus pilli, S. ef. occidentalis and Thylacoleo carnifex, Modern taxa, dominated by Rattus fuscipes, Antechinus stuartii and Perameles nasuta, indicate wet sclerophyll forest