Thylacoleonidae

Thylacoleonids
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Subclass:	Marsupialia
Order:	Diprotodontia
Family:	†Thylacoleonidae
Genus
All extinct, see text

Thylacoleonidae is a group of extinct meat-eating marsupials from Australia. The best known is Thylacoleo carnifex, also called the "marsupial lion". The family ranged from the Late-Oligocene to the Pliocene, with some species the size of a possum and others as big as a leopard.

Species

• Genus Priscileo
  • Priscileo pitikantensis (Upper-Oligocene)
  • Priscileo roskellyae (Middle-Miocene)
• Genus Thylacoleo
  • Thylacoleo carnifex (Pleistocene)
  • Thylacoleo crassidentatus (Pliocene)
  • Thylacoleo hilli (Pliocene)
• Genus Wakaleo
  • Wakaleo alcootaensis (Upper-Miocene)
  • Wakaleo oldfieldi (Lower—Upper-Miocene)
  • Wakaleo vanderleurei (Middle—Upper Miocene)