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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).
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
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: g = genus, f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lillegraven 1979, Hopson 1973, Carroll 1988, Bassarova et al. 2009, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1991, Clemens 1979 | |||||
Age range: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Holocene or 20.45000 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (38 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Late/Upper Oligocene - Early/Lower Miocene | Australia (South Australia) | Thylacinus sp. (13313) | |
| Burdigalian | Australia (Queensland) | Thylacinus macknessi (135708) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Australia (Northern Territory) | Thylacinus poten (135762) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene - Pleistocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Thylacinus rostralis (118343) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Thylacinus indet. (182211 182213) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Australia ( New South Wales) | Thylacinus cynocephalus (182621) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Thylacinus canocephalus (136076) Thylacinus cynocephalus (28298 136073 136159 181305) Thylacinus sp. (135983) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (Victoria) | Thylacinus cynocephalus (136221) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (New South Wales) | 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 (late glacial) | Australia (Victoria) | Thylacinus cynocephalus (92837) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Thylacinus cynocephalus (182321) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (Victoria) | Thylacinus cynocephalus (197269) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Thylacinus cynocephalus (136072 182957) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Australia (South Australia) | Thylacinus cynocephalus (136172) | |
| Holocene | Papua New Guinea | Thylacinus cynocephalus (223797) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Western Australia) | Thylacinus cynocephalus (181677) Thylacinus cyocephalus (182948 182949 182950 182951 182952) |