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Thylacinus yorkellus
Taxonomy
Thylacinus yorkellus was named by Yates (2015). It is not extant. Its type specimen is SAM P29807, a mandible (incomplete left dentary with C, P1-3 and M2-3).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2015 | Thylacinus yorkellus Yates |
| 2019 | Thylacinus yorkellus Rovinsky et al. p. 19 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Thylacinus yorkellus Yates 2015
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| D. S. Rovinsky et al. 2019 | large thylacinid; strongly developed precingulid terminating in a cuspidule on the mesiobuccal face of the paraconid of M1–3; small basal mesial cuspidule on P2–3; absence of metaconids on M2, M3, and presumably M4; diastemata between C1–M1; mesiodistal lengths of P2 and P3 both exceeding that of M1. |
Measurements
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| Source: g = genus, f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Clemens 1979, Hopson 1973, Bassarova et al. 2009 | |||||
Collections
No collection or age range data are available