Antechinus puteus (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae), a new fossil species from the Texas Caves, southeastern Queensland.

Abstract

Antechinus puteus, a new fossil species of Antechinus is described from a Pleistocene deposit in the Texas Caves of southeastern Queensland. This species most closely resembles A. flavipes (Waterhouse) but differs from it in possessing a single-rooted, obliquely oriented P3, and reduced talonids on M2 and M3.