Ground Pig Skull Replica or Wombat Male Skull measures 7.1 inches. Wombat Male Skull Replica is museum quality polyurethane cast
Ground Pigs have a remarkably rodent-like skull. They have a single pair of incisors. These teeth are heavily built and rodent-like in form. Also like the incisors of rodents, the incisors of wombats have enamel on anterior and lateral surfaces only.
The incisors are followed by a large diastema. The cheek teeth are hypsodont and unrooted. The molars are relatively simple; The dental formula is 1/1, 0,0, 1/1, 4/4 = 24.
On the skull itself, the coronoid process of dentary reduced and the masseter is the primary muscle used in mastication. Wombats have a strongly built zygomatic arch and short rostrum.
Ground Pigs are short-legged, muscular quadrupedal marsupials of the family Vombatidae that are native to Australia.
Living species are about 40 in. in length with small, stubby tails and weigh between 44 and 77 lb.
They are adaptable and habitat tolerant, and are found in forested, mountainous, and heathland areas of southern and eastern Australia, including Tasmania, as well as an isolated patch of about 740 acres in Epping Forest National Park in central Queensland.
Wombats dig extensive burrow systems with their rodent-like front teeth and powerful claws. One distinctive adaptation of wombats is their backward pouch. The advantage of a backward-facing pouch is that when digging, the Wombat does not gather soil in its pouch over its young.
