Thylacoleo carnifex

Taxonavigation edit

Taxonavigation: Vombatiformes
Template loop detected: Template:Taxonav Clade: Marsupialiformes Cohors: Marsupialia Cladus: Australidelphia Cladus: Eomarsupialia Ordo: Diprotodontia Subordo: Vombatiformes

Familia: †Thylacoleonidae
Genus: †Thylacoleo
Species: †Thylacoleo carnifex

Name edit

Thylacoleo carnifex Owen, 1860: 309

Type locality: "eighty miles S.W. of Melbourne, Victoria"; Australia.

References edit

Primary references edit

Owen, R. "1859" [1860]. On the Fossil Mammals of Australia.—Part 1. Description of a mutilated Skull of a large Marsupial Carnivore (Thylacoleo carnifex, Owen), from a calcareous conglomerate stratum, eighty miles S.W. of Melbourne, Victoria. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 149: 309–322. BHL Reference page.

Vernacular names edit

brezhoneg: Leon godellek
English: Marsupial Lion
français: Lion marsupial
galego: León marsupial
Bahasa Indonesia: Singa Marsupial
polski: Lew workowaty

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