abstract: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 that time, with Thylacoleo carnifex approaching the weight of a small lion.
It would be helpfulifsomeoneuncovereda Diprotodon skeletonwith aspear point embedded in a rib — or perhaps Thylacoleobonesnext to thecharcoalof a humancampfire.