Marsupial Lion

   

Marsupial Lion
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Subclass:Marsupialia
Order:Diprotodontia
Family:Thylacoleonidae
Genus:Thylacoleo
Species:carnifax
Binomial name
Thylacoleo carnifex

The Marsupial Lion (Thylacoleo carnifex) is an extinct species of carnivorous marsupial, that lived in Australia from the late Oligocene, 24 mya, to the end of the last Ice Age.

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