Thylacinus

Thylacinus
Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Dasyuromorphia
Family: Thylacinidae
Genus: Thylacinus
Temminck, 1824
Species

All extinct, see text.

Thylacinus is a genus of extinct carnivorous marsupials from the order Dasyuromorphia. The only recent member was the thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf, which became extinct in 1936 due to hunting. The other animals in the group all lived in prehistoric times in Australia. An unidentified species of the genus is known from the Pleistocene of New Guinea.

Species

Below is a phylogeny by Yates (2015) on the relationships of Thylacinus.[1]

Thylacinus

Thylacinus macknessi




Thylacinus potens




Thylacinus megiriani




Thylacinus yorkellus



Thylacinus cynocephalus






References

  1. Yates, A. M. (2015). "Thylacinus (Marsupialia: Thylacinidae) from the Mio-Pliocene boundary and the diversity of Late Neogene thylacinids in Australia". PeerJ 3: e931. doi:10.7717/peerj.931.

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