Thylacoleo carnifex
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https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090.457.1.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6974497 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EFDD5D-F770-6962-DB39-FDF01B0FFB5F |
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Felipe |
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Thylacoleo carnifex |
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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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