Muribacinus gadiyuli Wroe 1996 (thylacine)

Mammalia - Dasyuromorphia - Thylacinidae

Full reference: S. Wroe. 1996. Muribacinus gadiyuli, (Thylacinidae: Marsupialia), a very plesiomorphic thylacinid from the Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, and the problem of paraphyly for the Dasyuridae (Marsupialia). Journal of Paleontology 70(6):1032-1044

Belongs to Muribacinus according to S. Wroe 1996

See also Rovinsky et al. 2019

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: QMF 30386 (AR 5427), a maxilla (right maxillary fragment and most of jugal with P3, M1-4). Its type locality is Gag Site, which is in a Langhian/Serravallian lacustrine carbonate in Australia.

Ecology: scansorial carnivore

Distribution: found only at Gag Site

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