In Depth
Further Reading
– On the fossil mammals of Australia. Part II. Description of a mutilated skull of the large marsupial carnivore (Thylacoleo carnifex Owen), from a calcareous conglomerate stratum, eighty miles S. W. of Melbourne, Victoria. – Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 149, 309-322. – Richard Owen – 1859. – On the fossil mammals of Australia. Part IV. Dentition and mandible of Thylacoleo carnifex, with remarks on arguments for its herbivory. – Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 161, 213-266. – Richard Owen – 1871. – The skull of Thylacoleo carnifex. – Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 13, 125-140. – J. T. Woods – 1956. – A new species of Thylacoleo (Marsupialia, Thylacoleonidae), with notes on the occurrence and distribution of Thylacoleonidae in South Australia. – Records of the South Australian Museum 17, 277-283. – N. Pledge – 1977. – On the manus and pes of Thylacoleo carnifex Owen (Marsupialia). – Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 101,139-146. – R. T. Wells & B. Nichol – 1977. – Thylacoleo carnifex Owen (Thylacoleonidae): marsupial carnivore? pp. 573-585 in Archer, M. (ed) Carnivorous Marsupials, Vol. 2. Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Mosman – R. Wells, D. R. Horton & P. Rogers – 1982. – The discovery and interpretation of Thylacoleo carnifex (Thylacoleonidae, Marsupialia). pp. 537-551 in Archer, M. (ed) Carnivorous Marsupials, Vol. 2. Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Mosman. – M. E. Finch – 1982. – An odontometric study of the species of Thylacoleo (Thylacoleonidae, Marsupialia). pp. 553-572 in Archer, M. (ed) Carnivorous Marsupials, Vol. 2. Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Mosman. – M. E. Finch & L. Freedman – 1982. – Estimating the weight of the Pleistocene marsupial lion, Thylacoleo carnifex (Thylacoleonidae : Marsupialia): implications for the ecomorphology of a marsupial super-predator and hypotheses of impoverishment of Australian marsupial carnivore faunas – Australian Journal of Zoology 47 (5): 489–498. – S. Wroe, T. J. Myers, R. T. Wells & A. Gillespie – 1999. – An alternative method for predicting body mass: the case of the Pleistocene marsupial lion. – Paleobiology 29, 404-412. – S. Wroe, T. J. Myers, F. Seebacher, B. Kear, A. Gillespie, M. Crowther & S. Salisbury – 2003. – Pedal morphology of the marsupial lion Thylacoleo carnifex (Diprotodontia: Thylacoleonidae) from the Pleistocene of Australia. – Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 29:4, 1335-1340. – Roderick T. Wells, Peter F. Murray & Steven J. Bourne – 2009. -An ancient rock painting of a marsupial lion, Thylacoleo carnifex, from the Kimberley, Western Australia. – Antiquity Volume 083 Issue 319 – Kim Akerman & Tim Willing – 2009. – Behaviour of the Pleistocene marsupial lion deduced from claw marks in a southwestern Australian cave. – Scientific Reports. 6: 21372. – Samuel D. Arman & Gavin J. Prideaux – 2016. – New skeletal material sheds light on the palaeobiology of the Pleistocene marsupial carnivore, Thylacoleo carnifex. – PLOS ONE. 13 (12): e0208020. – A. R. Evans, R. T. Wells & A. B. Camens – 2018.
