Thylacine

Thylacine[1] Temporal range: Pliocene - Holocene, 4–0.0001 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Conservation status
Extinct  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Marsupialia
Order:	Dasyuromorphia
Family:	†Thylacinidae
Genus:	†Thylacinus
Species:	†T. cynocephalus
Binomial name
Thylacinus cynocephalus (Harris, 1808)
Historic Thylacine range in Tasmania
Synonyms
List Didelphis cynocephala Harris, 1808 Dasyurus cynocephalus Geoffroy, 1810 Thylacinus harrisii Temminck, 1824 Dasyurus lucocephalus Grant, 1831 Thylacinus striatus Warlow, 1833 Thylacinus communis Anon., 1859 Thylacinus breviceps Krefft, 1868

The thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) is an extinct species of mammal. It was a carnivorous marsupial animal. The Thylacine was also known as Tasmanian tiger, Tasmanian wolf and Tasmanian hyena. The last known Thylacine died in a Hobart zoo on 7 September 1936.^[2] They once lived across Australia and New Guinea. There are paintings of the animals in the north of Western Australia, and in the Northern Territory.^[3] At Riversleigh in north Queensland, scientists have discovered the fossil bones of thylacines that are at least 30 million years old.^[4]

1. ↑ Groves, Colin (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 23. ISBN 0-801-88221-4.
2. ↑ "Tasmanian Wildlife - Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger". Archived from the original on 2008-07-21. Retrieved 2008-06-01.
3. ↑ "Indigenous Peoples and the Thylacine" (htm). Australia's Thylacine. Australian Museum Online. 2002. Retrieved August 5, 2008.
4. ↑ "Is there a fossil Thylacine?" (htm). Australia's Thylacine. Australian Museum Online. 2002. Retrieved August 5, 2008.