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Thylacinus potens
Temporal range: Miocene (10-8 MYA)
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Infraclass:
Marsupialia
Order:
Dasyuromorphia
Family:
†Thylacinidae
Genus:
†Thylacinus
Species:
†T. potens
Binomial name
Thylacinus potens
(Woodburne, 1967)

Thylacinus potens ("powerful thylacine") was one of the largest species from the family Thylacinidae, growing up to the size of a wolf. In some ways it was more robust and had a shorter, broader skull than the modern Thylacine. The head and body together were around 5 ft long. The fossils were found near Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.

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