Thylacinidae

Thylacinidae is an extinct family of carnivorous marsupials from the order Dasyuromorphia. The only species to survive into modern times was the thylacine, which became extinct in 1936.

Thylacinidae

Baker; E.J. Keller. · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
thylacinePBDB
Sits inside
DasyuroideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Marsupialia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 2 of 50 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 10 of 50 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 50 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 30 of 50 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 7 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 24 occurrences23.04 Mya11.7 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

50 occurrences of Thylacinidae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

50 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

6 formations

Camfield Beds — 17.12°S, 131.52°EWaite — 22.87°S, 134.87°EWaite — 23.70°S, 133.88°ENelson Bay — 38.60°S, 141.58°ECarl Creek Limestone — 19.08°S, 138.72°EWipajiri — 27.75°S, 140.73°ED Clay — 35.70°S, 144.83°E

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The named rock units Thylacinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 42 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thylacinidae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Thylacinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

394 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Thylacinidae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

34 references

Each of the 50 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 22 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Thylacinidae

Credit
Baker; E.J. Keller.
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Thylacinidae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bonaparte 1838