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    Thylacoleo ("pouch lion") is an extinct genus of carnivorous marsupials that lived in Australia from the late Pliocene to the Late Pleistocene (until around...
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    marsupials from Australia, referred to as marsupial lions. The best known is Thylacoleo carnifex, also called the marsupial lion. The clade ranged from the Late...
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  • marsupial Thylacoleo, officially considered to be extinct, or possibly a large feral cat variant (given possible discrepancies with thylacoleo dentition)...
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    Extinct diprotodonts include the hippopotamus-sized Diprotodon, and Thylacoleo, the so-called "marsupial lion". Living diprotodonts are almost all herbivores...
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    or fend off predators, such as the largest-known marsupial carnivore Thylacoleo carnifex. Being a marsupial, the mother may have raised her joey in a...
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    Australian Pleistocene megafauna. They note that the marsupial lion (Thylacoleo carnifex) has been implicated with the butchery of very large Pleistocene...
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    Epochs. Although much smaller than its close relative, the marsupial lion (Thylacoleo carnifex), Wakaleo would have been a successful hunter. It had teeth specially...
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    Wonambi naracoortensis and Thylacoleo...
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    had dentition more similar to the dog. The Pleistocene marsupial lion (Thylacoleo carnifex) had massive carnassial molars. A recent study concludes that...
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    devils prey on wombats. Extinct predators were likely to have included Thylacoleo and possibly the thylacine (Tasmanian tiger). Their primary defence is...
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    Wonambi naracoortensis and Thylacoleo...
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  • Subfamily Thylacoleoninae Genus †ThylacoleoThylacoleo carnifex (Pleistocene) †Thylacoleo crassidentatus (Pliocene) †Thylacoleo hilli (Pliocene) Extinct...
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    terrestrial reptile back then, would have competed with predators like Thylacoleo to prey on marsupials as big as Procoptodon and even the Diprotodon, the...
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    congruus. Specimens are known from Mammoth Cave, Western Australia, the Thylacoleo Caves (Nullarbor Plain) and the Naracoorte caves in South Australia. Potential...
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    species Palorchestes parvus Ramsayia magna Sthenurus tindalei and S. atlas Thylacoleo carnifex (the marsupial lion) is the largest known carnivorous mammal...
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    and the thylacine. The extinctions included the even larger carnivore Thylacoleo carnifex (sometimes called the marsupial lion) which was only distantly...
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  • O'Connor (2024). A study on the probable predatory mode of Thylacosmilus and Thylacoleo is published by Janis (2024), who argues that Thylacosmilus was unlikely...
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    indicates a Thylacoleo is more likely, a position supported by palaeontologists and archaeologists who have examined the image. As the Thylacoleo is believed...
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  • Polistes carnifex, a species of wasp Pyrausta carnifex, a species of moth Thylacoleo carnifex, the marsupial lion, an extinct carnivorous mammal species Triturus...
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    depicting what is thought to be a Thylacoleo was discovered[by whom?] on the north-western coast of the Kimberley. As the Thylacoleo is believed to have become...
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    Suborder Vombatiformes Family †Thylacoleonidae: (marsupial lions) Genus †Thylacoleo Genus †Priscileo Genus †Wakaleo Genus †Microleo Family Phascolarctidae:...
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  • the Pliocene, including dasyurids, the dog-like thylacine and cat-like Thylacoleo. The first rodents arrived in Australia. The modern platypus, a monotreme...
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    23.03–0.012 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Wonambi naracoortensis and Thylacoleo Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum:...
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    Sedophascolomys (giant wombat) Phascolarctos stirtoni (giant koala) Marsupial lion (Thylacoleo carnifex) Various members of Macropodidae Procoptodon (short-faced kangaroos)...
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    †Thylacoleonidae Enigmaleo Lekaneleo Microleo Thylacoleo Wakaleo Phascolarctidae †Invictokoala †Koobor †Litokoala †Madakoala †Nimiokoala †Perikoala Phascolarctos...
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    exceed 1,000 kg (2,200 lb). The largest known carnivorous marsupial was Thylacoleo carnifex. Measurements taken from a number of specimens show they averaged...
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  • carnivorous marsupials known to ever exist were the Australian marsupial lion (Thylacoleo carnifex) and the South American saber-toothed marsupial (Thylacosmilus)...
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  • of "pouch", used for marsupials. Examples: Thylacine ("pouched one"); Thylacoleo ("pouched lion"); Thylacosmilus ("pouched knife") tri-: Pronunciation:...
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    found that are believed to depict extinct megafauna such as Genyornis and Thylacoleo in the Pleistocene era as well as more recent historical events such as...
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    eventually reprinted in book-form in 1877. He described Diprotodon (1838) and Thylacoleo (1859), and extinct species kangaroos and wombats of gigantic size. Most...
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