Thylacoleo
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Thylacoleo is an extinct genus of carnivorous marsupials that lived in Australia from the late Pliocene to the Late Pleistocene, often known as marsupial lions. They were the largest and last members
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Skull of Thylacoleo carnifex
Skeleton at Naracoorte Caves
Thylacoleo BW
Thylacine
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The thylacine, also commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger, Tasmanian wolf or marsupial wolf is an extinct species of carnivorous marsupial which was native to the Australian mainland and the islands o
Thylacoleo
…Osphranter as well as possibly the largest Australian marsupial, the rhinoceros-sized vombatoid Diprotodon. The animal appears to have coexisted with the thylacine; however, it did not compete with it because their dietary niches did not overlap. Trace fossils in the form of claw marks and bones from caves in…
Thylacinus
The earliest known non-indigenous illustration of a thylacine; from Harris's 1808 description
The thylacine was a basal member of Dasyuromorphia, an order comprising most of the Australian carnivorous marsupials
Thylacine skull cast (bottom) and coyote skull (top), at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.