Thylacinids Temporal range: Late Oligocene - Holocene |
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Thylacine | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Dasyuromorphia |
Family: |
†Thylacinidae C.L. Bonaparte, 1838 |
Genera | |
All extinct, see text |
All extinct, see text
Thylacinidae is an extinct family of carnivorous, superficially dog-like marsupials from the order Dasyuromorphia. The only species to survive into modern times was the thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), which became extinct in 1936.
Family †Thylacinidae