thylacoleo

📅 Updated:2018-07-13

🕒 Created:2016-12-31

🆔 ID:14668

Description

Thylacoleo ("pouch lion") is an extinct genus of carnivorous marsupials that lived in Australia from the late Pliocene to the late Pleistocene (2 million to 46 thousand years ago). Some of these "marsupial lions" were the largest mammalian predators in Australia of that time, with Thylacoleo carnifex approaching the weight of a small lion. The estimated average weight for the species ranges from 101 to 130 kg.

Despite the name, they are NOT lions, do not tag them as such unless they look hybridized with one.