Mammalia - Dasyuromorphia - Thylacinidae

Full reference: J. Muirhead. 1992. A specialised thylacinid, Thylacinus macknessi, (Marsupialia: Thylacinidae) from Miocene deposits of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Australian Mammalogy 15:67-76

Belongs to Thylacinus according to J. Muirhead 1992

See also Rovinsky et al. 2019

Sister taxa: Thylacinus cynocephalus, Thylacinus major, Thylacinus megiriani, Thylacinus potens, Thylacinus rostralis, Thylacinus spelaeus, Thylacinus yorkellus

Type specimen: QM FI6848a, a mandible (right dentary). Its type locality is Neville's Garden Site, which is in a Burdigalian terrestrial horizon in Australia.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Neville's Garden Site

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.