Thylacoleo
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 their time, with "Thylacoleo carnifex" approaching the weight of a lioness. The estimated average weight for the species ranges from .
Q123509
extinct
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Q34740
genus
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Q25336
marsupial
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Q408
Australia
LOC
Q76259
Pliocene
MEDIA
Q25546
Pleistocene
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Q7377
mammal
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Q685786
Thylacoleo carnifex
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Q140
lion
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Q312099
Thylacoleo
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2
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+46^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
46
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