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Thylacinus (Tasmanian wolf)
Taxonomy
Thylacinus was named by Temminck (1824). It is not extant.
It was assigned to Dasyuridae by Lydekker (1894); and to Thylacinidae by Marshall (1974), Krajewski et al. (1992), Springer et al. (1994), Wroe (1996), McKenna and Bell (1997), Dawson et al. (1999), Yates (2015), Rovinsky et al. (2019).
It was assigned to Dasyuridae by Lydekker (1894); and to Thylacinidae by Marshall (1974), Krajewski et al. (1992), Springer et al. (1994), Wroe (1996), McKenna and Bell (1997), Dawson et al. (1999), Yates (2015), Rovinsky et al. (2019).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1824 | Thylacinus Temminck |
| 1894 | Thylacinus Lydekker p. 267 |
| 1974 | Thylacinus Marshall p. 66 |
| 1992 | Thylacinus Krajewski et al. p. 20 |
| 1994 | Thylacinus Springer et al. p. 86 |
| 1996 | Thylacinus Wroe p. 1021 |
| 1997 | Thylacinus McKenna and Bell |
| 1999 | Thylacinus Dawson et al. p. 268 |
| 2015 | Thylacinus Yates |
| 2019 | Thylacinus Rovinsky et al. p. 15 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Thylacinus Temminck 1824 [Tasmanian wolf]
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†Thylacinus cynocephalus Harris 1808 [thylacine]
†Thylacinus macknessi Muirhead 1992
†Thylacinus major Owen 1877
†Thylacinus megiriani Murray 1997
†Thylacinus potens Woodburne 1967
†Thylacinus rostralis De Vis 1894
†Thylacinus spelaeus Owen 1887
†Thylacinus yorkellus Yates 2015
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available