Thylacinidae

Thylacinidae Temporal range: Late Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Thylacine
Non-Thylacinus thylacinids, including Nimbacinus (top right)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Marsupialia
Order:	Dasyuromorphia
Family:	†Thylacinidae C.L. Bonaparte, 1838
Genera
Badjcinus Maximucinus Muribacinus Mutpuracinus? Ngamalacinus Nimbacinus Thylacinus Tyarrpecinus Wabulacinus

Thylacinidae is an extinct family of carnivorous marsupials from the order Dasyuromorphia. The only species to survive into modern times was the thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), which became extinct in 1936.

The consensus of authors prior to 1982 was that the thylacinid family were related to the Borhyaenidae, a group of South American predators, also extinct, that exhibited many similar characteristics of dentition. A review published in 1982 compared the skeletal structure of these groups, concluding the tarsal bones show greater affinity with the dasyurmorphs, strongly supporting the later theory that any dental similarities emerged independently via convergent evolution.^[1] Thylacinidae is currently considered to be the most basal and earliest diverging member of Dasyuromorpha, estimated to have split from other dasyuromorphs around 42-36 million years ago.^[2]

The earliest thylacinid,