Thylacoleo Thylacoleo

Thylacoleo - Definition

'Marsupial Lion'

Conservation status: Prehistoric

Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Subclass:Marsupialia
Order:Diprotodontia
Family:Thylacoleonidae
Genus:Thylacoleo
Species:T. carnifex
Binomial name
Thylacoleo carnifex
(Owen, 1858)

The Marsupial Lion (Thylacoleo carnifex) is an extinct species of carnivorous marsupial, that lived in Australia from about 24 million years ago, during the late Oligocene, and became extinct about 50,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age.

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