Thylacoleo
Thylacoleo is a bag lions genre of the late Miocene to late Pleistocene.
Features
Thylacoleo, the " marsupial lion " had strong limbs, a strong spine, front paws with sharp claws and extra long thumb claws. The first toe of the foot was opponierbar, the third premolar was transformed into a fang, while the molars were greatly reduced, the first upper molar was sharpening the P3 fangs. Thylacoleo was a successful robbers, who brought his prey similar to recent leopard for consumption on trees and similar to those with the pinching off the air supply killed by a bite to the throat.
Species
There are known three ways. Thylacoleo carnifex Owen, 1858 reached the size of a recent leopard or a lion female with a live weight of 150 kg and was the largest species of the genus. He also had the longest P3 Fangs and was widespread in the Pleistocene over a large part of the Australian continent. Thylacoleo hilli PLEDGE 1977 was the smallest and oldest species of the genus with the shortest P3 fangs. He lived from the late Miocene to Pliocene to as part of the Curramulka - local fauna in South Australia and the Bow Local Fauna in New South Wales. Thylacoleo crassidentatus Bartholomew, 1962 was both time and body size and the size of the P3 Fangs between the two other species of the genus. He lived in the Pliocene and was spread over large parts of eastern Australia.