Petrogale Skull replica or Brush-Tailed Rock Wallaby Skull measures 4.5 inches. Brush-Tailed Rock Wallaby Skull is museum quality polyurethane cast. Made in USA. Cast of an original California Academy of Sciences specimen. Skull replica is female. 2-part skull (seperate cranium and jaw).

The Brush-tailed Rock-Wallaby or small-eared rock-wallaby (Petrogale penicillata) is a kind of wallaby, one of several rock-wallabies in the genus Petrogale.

According to the IUCN Red List, the total population size of Petrogale or Brush-tailed rock-wallabies is estimated to be between 15,000 and 30,000 individuals, including 20,000 mature individuals.

Historical and current threats include hunting, predation, habitat loss, competition with other species and loss of genetic diversity.

The Petrogale or Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby is listed as Vulnerable under the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

Petrogale’s have a few natural predators and they are Dingoes, Wedge-tailed Eagles and Tasmanian Devils.

Diet of the Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby consists mainly of short grasses, with Acacia flowers, forbs, leaves, fruit, bark and fruiting bodies of hypogeal fungi are also eaten.

Petrogale inhabits rock piles and cliff lines along the Great Dividing Range from about 100 km north-west of Brisbane to northern Victoria, in vegetation ranging from rainforest to dry sclerophyll forests.

Petrogale or Brush-Tailed Rock Wallaby populations have declined in the south and west of its range, but it remains locally common in northern New South Wales and southern Queensland.

Due to a large bushfire event in South-East Australia around 70% of all the wallaby’s habitat has been lost as of January 2020.

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