Thylacoleo carnifex

Beck, Robin M. D., Voss, Robert S. & Jansa, Sharon A., 2022, Craniodental Morphology And Phylogeny Of Marsupials, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2022 (457), pp. 1-353 : 331

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090.457.1.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6974497

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scientific name

Thylacoleo carnifex
status

 

Thylacoleo

SPECIES SCORED: † Thylacoleo carnifex (type species).

GEOLOGICAL PROVENANCE OF SCORED SPECIMENS: Multiple Pleistocene sites in South Australia.

AGE OF SCORED SPECIMENS: Pleistocene.

ASSIGNED AGE RANGE: 2.580 –0.012 Mya.

REMARKS: † Thylacoleo carnifex was the largest (with some individuals possibly> 100 kg; Wroe et al., 1999; 2003; Richards et al., 2019), morphologically most specialized, and last surviving thylacoleonid (Gillespie, 1999; Long et al., 2002; Gillespie, 2007). It is known from abundant craniodental and postcranial material from various Pleistocene deposits around Australia (Gillespie, 2007).

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