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| The skull (resin
cast) of a large male thylacine. This individual lived at the City
Park Zoo in Launceston, Tasmania, circa 1912. This cast is from my
personal collection. The length of the cranium is 25.5 cm (10 in.).
To allow for a better view of the dentition, I constructed a stand so that
the skull could be positioned with the jaws open. According to Moeller
(1997) the thylacine can open its jaws to an angle of at least 75º,
giving it one of the widest gapes of any modern mammal. |
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skull (resin cast) measures 22 cm (8.6 inches). Like the one shown
above, this cast is also from my own collection. Unfortunately, I
have not been able to locate any historical data on this specimen.
An absence of information is common to many thylacine specimens,
as during the time when most were obtained by museums, relatively little
emphasis was placed upon the collection of scientific data about them. |
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