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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) and Rauscher (1987); to Phalangeroidea by Pledge (1977) and McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Vombatiformes by Dawson et al. (1999), Gillespie et al. (2016), Gillespie et al. (2019) and 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) and Rauscher (1987); to Phalangeroidea by Pledge (1977) and McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Vombatiformes by Dawson et al. (1999), Gillespie et al. (2016), Gillespie et al. (2019) and Beck et al. (2020).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 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