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Thylacinus is a genus of extinct carnivorous marsupials from the order Dasyuromorphia. The only recent member was the thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf, which became extinct in 1936 due to hunting. The other animals in the group all lived in prehistoric times in Australia. An unidentified species of the genus is known from the Pleistocene of New Guinea.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacinus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2435473	https://www.gbif.org/species/2435473
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40103	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40103

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Dasyuromorphia : Thylacinidae : Thylacinus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
-	Theriamorpha
-	Theriiformes
-	Trechnotheria	McKenna 1975
-	Cladotheria	McKenna 1975
-	Boreosphenida
subclass	Theria	Parker and Haswell 1897
subclass	Metatheria
-	Marsupialia
-	Australidelphia	Szalay 1982
superorder	Eometatheria	Simpson 1970
order	Dasyuromorphia	Gill 1872
suborder	Dasyuroidea	Goldfuss 1820
family	Thylacinidae	Bonaparte 1838
genus	Thylacinus	Temminck 1824

Common Name

Tasmanian wolf

Scientific Name

Thylacinus Temminck, 1824

Name Published In

Temminck, Coenraad J. 1824. Monographies de Mammalogie, ou description de quelques genres de mammifères, dont les espèces ont été observées dans les différens musées de l'Europe. Ouvrage accompagné de planches d'Ostéologie, pouvant servir de suite et de complément aux notices sur les animaux vivans, publiées par M. le Baron G. Cuvier, dans ses recherches sur les ossemens fossiles. G. Dufour et E. D'Ocagne, Paris. Vol. 1.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Thylacinus	genus	belongs to Dasyuridae	stated without evidence	Lydekker, 1894
Thylacinus	genus	belongs to Thylacinidae	stated without evidence	Marshall, 1974
Thylacinus	genus	belongs to Thylacinidae	stated with evidence	Krajewski et al., 1992
Thylacinus	genus	belongs to Thylacinidae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Thylacinus	genus	belongs to Thylacinidae	stated without evidence	Dawson et al., 1999

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

28.4 - 16.0 Ma
Cenozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

0.01 Ma
Pleistocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Mammalia)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

carnivore (based on Thylacinidae)

Reproduction

viviparous (based on Theria)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

M. C. McKenna and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level

Common Name(s)

Tasmanian Wolf, Thylacines, Thylacine

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacinus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Thylacinus cynocephalus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Thylacine	21	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0.01 Ma Pleistocene
Thylacinus macknessi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Thylacinus major ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Thylacinus megiriami ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Thylacinus potens ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Thylacinus rostralis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	5.33 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Thylacinus spelaeus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Lycaon Wagler, 1830	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Dasyuromorphia : Thylacinidae : *Lycaon*
Paracyon Gray, 1827	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Dasyuromorphia : Thylacinidae : *Paracyon*
Peracyon Gray, 1825	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Dasyuromorphia : Thylacinidae : *Peracyon*
Thilacinus Cuvier, 1829	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Dasyuromorphia : Thylacinidae : *Thilacinus*
Thylacynus Temminck, 1824	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Dasyuromorphia : Thylacinidae : *Thylacynus*
Peralopex Gloger, 1841	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Dasyuromorphia : Thylacinidae : *Peralopex*

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

References

McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640

Lydekker R. , A Hand-Book to the Marsupialia and Monotremata, 1-302

Marshall L. G. (1974) Late Pleistocene mammals from the "Keilor cranium site," southern Victoria, Australia, Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 35, 63-86

Krajewski C., Driskell A. C., et al (1992) Phylogenetic relationships of the thylacine (Mammalia: Thylacinidae) among dasyuroid marsupials: evidence from cytochrome b DNA sequences, Proceedings of the Royal Society B 250, 19-27

Springer M. S. Y., Westerman M., et al (1994) Relationships among orders and families of marsupials based on 12S ribosomal DNA sequences and the timing of the marsupial radiation, Journal of Mammalian Evolution 2 2, 85-115

Wroe S. (1996) Muribacinus gadiyuli, (Thylacinidae: Marsupialia), a very plesiomorphic thylacinid from the Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, and the problem of paraphyly for the Dasyuridae (Marsupialia), Journal of Paleontology 70 6, 1032-1044

Dawson L., Muirhead J., et al (1999) The Big Sink local fauna; a lower Pliocene mammalian fauna from the Wellington Caves complex, Wellington, New South Wales, Records of the Western Australian Museum 57, 265-290

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 2142. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nowak, Ronald M., 1991: null. Walker's Mammals of the World, vol. 1, 5th ed.. 1629. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Mon. Mamm., 1 (3), 60 (as Thylacynus, 1827, 1 (7), pp. xxiii, 23, 267). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997, PaleoDB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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