thylacotheren.
/ˈθʌɪləkəʊθɪə/ Palaeontology.
An extinct mammal of the genus Thylacotherium, also called Amphitherium (see amphithere n.), variously supposed to have been a marsupial or an insectivorous placental.
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the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > fossil or extinct
legh1774
thylacothere1838
anthracothere1848
anchithere1868
amblypod1877
Bramathere1879
multituberculate1888
promammal1889
tillodont1889
tinoceratid1895
uintathere1898
arsinoitherium1902
symmetrodont1933
synapsid1956
1838 Owen in Proc. Geol. Soc. 3 19 In the position of the dental foramen, the Phascolothere, like the Thylacothere, differs from all zoophagous marsupials.
1852 W. J. Broderip Leaves Note Bk. of Naturalist viii. 165 There cannot have been any very wide zoological interval between the forms of the thylacine and of the thylacothere.
Derivatives
thylacoˈtherian adj.
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the world > animals > mammals > [adjective] > of fossil or extinct types
thylacotherian1838
multituberculate1884
tinoceratid1891
synapsidan1903
synapsid1910
symmetrodont1950
1838 Owen in Proc. Geol. Soc. 3 17 Objections against the mammiferous nature of the Thylacotherian jaws.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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