Thylacoleonidae

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Marsupial lions
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Infraclass: Marsupialia Order: Diprotodontia Family: †Thylacoleonidae
Genus
All extinct, see text

Thylacoleonidae is a group of extinct meat-eating marsupials from Australia. The best-known is Thylacoleo carnifex, also called the "marsupial lion". The family ranged from the Late-Oligocene to the Pleistocene, with some species the size of a possum and others as big as a leopard.

[edit] Species

• Genus Priscileo
  • Priscileo pitikantensis (Upper-Oligocene)
  • Priscileo roskellyae (Middle-Miocene)
• Genus Wakaleo
  • Wakaleo alcootaensis (Upper-Miocene)
  • Wakaleo oldfieldi (Lower—Upper-Miocene)
  • Wakaleo vanderleuri (Middle—Upper Miocene)
• Genus Thylacoleo
  • Thylacoleo carnifex (Pleistocene)
  • Thylacoleo crassidentatus (Pliocene)
  • Thylacoleo hilli (Pliocene)
  • Thylacoleo robustus
  • Thylacoleo australis
  • Thylacoleo oweni