Thylacoleonidae
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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 Pliocene, with some species the size of a possum and others as big as a leopard.
Species
- Genus Priscileo
- * Priscileo pitikantensis (Upper-Oligocene)
- * Priscileo roskellyae (Middle-Miocene)
- Genus Wakaleo
- *Wakaleo alcootaensis (Upper-Miocene)
- *Wakaleo oldfieldi (Lower—Upper-Miocene)
- * Wakaleo vanderleurei (Middle—Upper Miocene)
- Genus Thylacoleo
- * Thylacoleo carnifex (Pleistocene)
- * Thylacoleo crassidentatus (Pliocene)
- * Thylacoleo hilli (Pliocene)
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