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Thylacoleonidae
Taxonomy
Thylacoleonidae was named by Gill (1872). It is not extant.
It was corrected as Thylacoleontidae by Gadow (1898).
It was assigned to Phascolomyoidea by Pocock (1921); to Diprotodonta by Marshall (1974); to Diprotodontia by Cope (1889), Gadow (1898), Rauscher (1987); to Phalangeroidea by Pledge (1977), McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Vombatiformes by Dawson et al. (1999), Gillespie et al. (2016), Gillespie et al. (2019), Beck et al. (2020).
It was corrected as Thylacoleontidae by Gadow (1898).
It was assigned to Phascolomyoidea by Pocock (1921); to Diprotodonta by Marshall (1974); to Diprotodontia by Cope (1889), Gadow (1898), Rauscher (1987); to Phalangeroidea by Pledge (1977), McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Vombatiformes by Dawson et al. (1999), Gillespie et al. (2016), Gillespie et al. (2019), Beck et al. (2020).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1872 | Thylacoleonidae Gill |
| 1889 | Thylacoleontidae Cope p. 876 |
| 1898 | Thylacoleontidae Gadow p. 41 |
| 1921 | Thylacoleonidae Pocock p. 606 |
| 1974 | Thylacoleonidae Marshall p. 66 |
| 1977 | Thylacoleonidae Pledge |
| 1987 | Thylacoleonidae Rauscher |
| 1997 | Thylacoleonidae McKenna and Bell |
| 1999 | Thylacoleonidae Dawson et al. p. 274 |
| 2016 | Thylacoleonidae Gillespie et al. |
| 2019 | Thylacoleonidae Gillespie et al. |
| 2020 | Thylacoleonidae Beck et al. |
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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. †Thylacoleonidae Gill 1872
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G. †Thylacoleo Owen 1852
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†Thylacoleo carnifex Owen 1859
†Thylacoleo crassidentatus Bartholomai 1962
†Thylacoleo hilli Pledge 1977
G. †Wakaleo Clemens and Plane 1974
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†Wakaleo alcootaensis Archer and Rich 1982
†Wakaleo oldfieldi Clemens and Plane 1974
†Wakaleo pitikantensis Rauscher 1987
†Wakaleo schouteni Gillespie et al. 2019
†Wakaleo vanderleueri Clemens and Plane 1974
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hopson 1973, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Clemens 1979, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Oligocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 28.40000 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (49 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Late/Upper Oligocene | Australia (South Australia) | Priscileo pitikantensis (137261) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene - Early/Lower Miocene | Australia (South Australia) | Wakaleo oldfieldi (13313) | |
| Aquitanian - Burdigalian | Australia (Queensland) | Wakaleo sp. (183096) | |
| Miocene - Holocene | Australia (Victoria) | Thylacoleo carnifex (182835) | |
| Burdigalian | Australia (Queensland) | Microleo attenboroughi (135708) | |
| Langhian - Serravallian | Australia (Queensland) | Wakaleo oldfieldi (137790 154250 175732) | |
| Middle Miocene | Australia (Queensland) | Wakaleo oldfieldi (175729 175731) | |
| Middle Miocene | Australia (Northern Territory) | Wakaleo vanderleueri (137618) | |
| Tortonian | Australia (Queensland) | Wakaleo vanderleuri (68775) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Australia (Northern Territory) | Wakaleo alacootaensis (135762) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Australia (Queensland) | Wakaleo vanderleueri (175733) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Thylacoleo crassidentatus (181610) | |
| Zanclean | Australia (Queensland) | Thylacoleo sp. (182159) | |
| Pliocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Thylacoleo carnifex (95862) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Thylacoleo sp. (182843) | |
| Piacenzian - Calabrian | Australia (Victoria) | Thylacoleonidae indet. (70576) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Thylacoleo indet. (182213) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Australia ( New South Wales) | Thylacoleo carnifex, Thylacoleo crassidentatus, Thylacoleo hilli (182621) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (Victoria) | Thylacoleo carnifex (70580 136221) Thylacoleonidae indet. (70579) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Thylacoleo carnifex (28298 136069 136073 136076 136159 136430 181305) Thylacoleo hilli (135983) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Thylacoleo carnifex (95899 96015 96019 181761) Thylacoleo sp. (182108) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (Queensland) | Thylacoleo carnifex (138403) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Australia (Victoria) | Thylacoleo carnifex (182166) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Thylacoleo carnifex (136074 136075) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (Queensland) | Thylacoleo carnifex (136730) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (Victoria) | Thylacoleo carnifex (182001 182939 197269) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Thylacoleo carnifex (182957) Thylacoleonidae indet. (182002) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (Queensland) | Thylacoleo sp. (210195) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Australia (South Australia) | Thylacoleo carnifex (136172) |