Figure 7
Annotated line drawings of upper molars from representative non-vombatiform diprotodontians, illustrating the ambiguity concerning homology of their buccal structures. The thylacoleonid (a) Lekaneleo roskellyae (RM1, mirrored; QM F23442); phalangeroids (b) Burramys wakefieldi (LM1; SAMA P40931), and (e) Durudawiri inusitatus (RM1, mirrored; QM F31468); macropodoids (c) Palaeopotorous priscus (RM1 or M2, mirrored; NMV P157547), and (f) Nambaroo tarrinyeri (LM1 or M2, 157528); and miminipossumid? (d) gen. et sp. indet. (LM1 or M2, Ditjimanka Local Fauna; SAMA P19856). mcl metaconule, me metacone, ne neomorphic structure, pa paracone, pcl protoconule, pr protocone, stB stylar cusp B, stC stylar cusp C, stD stylar cusp D. Not to scale.
