Badjcinus turnbulli 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

Belongs to Badjcinus according to J. Muirhead and S. Wroe 1998

See also Rovinsky et al. 2019

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: QM F30408, a partial skull (premaxilla, maxilla, posterior part of nasals, frontal, posterior part of the right jugal, basicranium, parietals). Its type locality is White Hunter Site, which is in a Chattian terrestrial horizon in the Carl Creek Limestone Formation of Australia.

Ecology: scansorial carnivore

Distribution: found only at White Hunter Site

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