Badjcinus Muirhead and Wroe 1998 (thylacine)

Mammalia - Dasyuromorphia - Thylacinidae

Full reference: J. Muirhead and S. Wroe. 1998. A new genus and species, Badjcinus turnbulli (Thylacinidae: Marsupialia), from the Late Oligocene of Riversleigh, Northern Australia, and an investigation of thylacinid philogeny. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(3):612-626

Parent taxon: Thylacinidae according to J. Muirhead and S. Wroe 1998

See also Rovinsky et al. 2019

Sister taxa: Maximucinus, Muribacinus, Mutpuracinus, Ngamalacinus, Nimbacinus, Thylacinus, Tyarrpecinus, Wabulacinus

Subtaxa: Badjcinus turnbulli

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Ecology: scansorial carnivore

Distribution: found only at White Hunter Site (Oligocene of Australia)

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