Thylacinus facts for kids
| Thylacinids | |
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| Thylacine | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Dasyuromorphia |
| Family: | †Thylacinidae |
| Genus: | †Thylacinus Temminck, 1824 |
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All extinct, see text. |
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Thylacinus is a genus of extinct carnivorous marsupials from the order Dasyuromorphia.
Species
- Genus Thylacinus
- Thylacinus cynocephalus, also known as the Thylacine (Early Pliocene to 1936)
- Thylacinus macnessi (Upper Oligocene — Lower Miocene)
- Thylacinus megiriani (Upper Miocene)
- Thylacinus potens (Lower Miocene)
- Thylacinus rostralis
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