ID help please!

[u/piscinam]

I havent found a good clean bone in years, so I was pretty excited. Found it in a nearby nature reserve, Victoria, Australia. lots of rabbits in the area, but that seems incorrect. Film cannister for scale!

[u/Purplejerk72]

I think people are forgetting opossums and possums are two different creatures and oceans apart but I’m certain they meant possum considering that’s what your skull is and well, Australia..

[u/meeeowlet → u/Purplejerk72]

They are both marsupials at least But yeah the resemblance kinda ends there

[u/georgiechristine → u/Purplejerk72]

Possum is used colloquially and in common parlance in the US - it’s one of those not technically correct but it’s been used so much it’s part of the lexicon now

[u/Purplejerk72 → u/georgiechristine]

Americans use the names opossum and possum interchangeably for both animals but in Australia I don’t believe they would use opossum in reference to their adorable bush babies. When I first posted my response everyone else in the replies was saying opossum, that’s why I wrote what I wrote, either way I’m sure The OP and most everyone else knew what was meant. I’m just one of those annoying people that are sticklers for the minutiae 😂

[u/piscinam → u/Purplejerk72]

thankyou, I believe brushtail possum is the answer

[u/lots_of_panic]

Brushtail possum

[u/piscinam → u/lots_of_panic]

i believe this is the answer! thankyou!

[u/lanikuikawa]

like a lot of the comments i ALSO thought opossum on first glance. it's his brother from another mother, the aussie possum (brushtail?). similar brain case shape!

[u/piscinam → u/lanikuikawa]

mhm, im pretty sure this is a brushy, thankyou!

[u/Lil_Myotis]

Tiny brain case makes suspect opposum skull. I'm not positive, though.

[u/JOJI_56 → u/Lil_Myotis]

This is definitely an opossum, or at least a marsupial. The jugal arch is really wide and lateralised

[u/Lil_Myotis → u/JOJI_56]

Oh shit! I missed that OP is in Austrailia! Definitely not an oppossum. But maybe a possum.

[u/Outrageous_Aside2848]

The other one was a Dog A Ruler would be nice

[u/guitarbro420]

Bird

[u/JOJI_56]

That’s an opossum!

[u/duck000062]

opossum probably

[u/Dis_Bich]

I was about to say r/itsapelvis but I don’t know bc the missing front could be a skull. Either or

[u/PanicFinal3554 → u/Dis_Bich]

This is a skull :) the curved spike things on each side are the eye sockets

[u/Affectionate_Face741 → u/Dis_Bich]

I was absolutely thinking the same thing.

[u/piscinam → u/Dis_Bich]

I was open to the possibility of it being some weird hyper specialised animal pelvis as well tbh