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Thylacinidae (thylacine)
Taxonomy
Thylacinidae was named by Bonaparte (1838). It is not extant. It was considered monophyletic by Wroe (1996).
It was assigned to Marsupialia by Bonaparte (1850); to Dasyura by Ameghino (1891); to Marsupicarnivora by Marshall (1974); to Dasyuroidea by Krajewski et al. (1992), Wroe (1996) and McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Dasyuromorphia by Nowak (1991), Springer et al. (1994), Dawson et al. (1999), Yates (2015) and Rovinsky et al. (2019).
It was assigned to Marsupialia by Bonaparte (1850); to Dasyura by Ameghino (1891); to Marsupicarnivora by Marshall (1974); to Dasyuroidea by Krajewski et al. (1992), Wroe (1996) and McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Dasyuromorphia by Nowak (1991), Springer et al. (1994), Dawson et al. (1999), Yates (2015) and Rovinsky et al. (2019).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1838 | Thylacinidae Bonaparte |
| 1850 | Thylacinidae Bonaparte p. 1 |
| 1891 | Thylacynidae Ameghino p. 25 |
| 1974 | Thylacinidae Marshall p. 66 |
| 1991 | Thylacinidae Nowak |
| 1992 | Thylacinidae Krajewski et al. p. 20 |
| 1994 | Thylacinidae Springer et al. p. 86 |
| 1996 | Thylacinidae Wroe p. 1033 |
| 1997 | Thylacinidae McKenna and Bell |
| 1999 | Thylacinidae Dawson et al. p. 268 |
| 2015 | Thylacinidae Yates |
| 2019 | Thylacinidae Rovinsky et al. p. 10 |
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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.
Fm. †Thylacinidae Bonaparte 1838 [thylacine]
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G. †Nimbacinus Muirhead and Archer 1990
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†Nimbacinus dicksoni Muirhead and Archer 1990
†Nimbacinus richi Murray and Megirian 2000
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
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lillegraven 1979, Hopson 1973, Hendy et al. 2009, Clemens 1979, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991 | |||||
Collections (49 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Late/Upper Oligocene | Australia (Northern Territory) | Thylacinidae indet. (182619) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene - Early/Lower Miocene | Australia (South Australia) | Thylacinus sp. (13313) | |
| Chattian | Australia (Queensland) | Badjcinus turnbulli (135706) | |
| Aquitanian - Burdigalian | Australia (Queensland) | Nimbacinus dicksoni (183096) | |
| Burdigalian | Australia (Queensland) | Thylacinus macknessi (135708) Wabulacinus ridei (134946) | |
| Langhian - Serravallian | Australia (Queensland) | Maximucinus murheadae (92641) Muribacinus gadiyuli (28420) | |
| Middle Miocene | Australia (Northern Territory) | Mutpuracinus archibaldi (92839) Nimbacinus richi (106503) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Australia (Northern Territory) | Thylacinus poten (135762) Tyarrpecinus rothi (135707) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene - Pleistocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Thylacinus rostralis (118343) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Australia ( New South Wales) | Thylacinus cynocephalus (182621) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Thylacinus indet. (182211 182213) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Thylacinus canocephalus (136076) Thylacinus cynocephalus (28298 136073 136159 181305) Thylacinus sp. (135983) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (Victoria) | Thylacinidae indet. (70579) Thylacinus cynocephalus (136221) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Thylacinidae indet. (96019) Thylacinus ceynocephalus (96020) Thylacinus cynocephalus (96015 96018 182069) Thylacinus sp. (95899) | |
| Quaternary | Australia (New South Wales) | Thylacinus cynocephalus (181307) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Thylacinus cynocephalus (28364) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Australia (Queensland) | Thylacinus cynocephalus (183095) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (Queensland) | Thylacinus cynocephalus (136730) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Thylacinus cynocephalus (136074 136075) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (Victoria) | Thylacinus cynocephalus (197269) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (late glacial) | Australia (Victoria) | Thylacinus cynocephalus (92837) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Thylacinus cynocephalus (182321) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Thylacinus cynocephalus (136072 182957) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Australia (South Australia) | Thylacinus cynocephalus (136172) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Western Australia) | Thylacinus cynocephalus (181677) Thylacinus cyocephalus (182948 182949 182950 182951 182952) | |
| Holocene | Papua New Guinea | Thylacinus cynocephalus (223797) |