Tag: Thylacinidae

  • The predatory behaviour of an extinct ‘cat-like’ marsupial carnivore

    The predatory behaviour of an extinct ‘cat-like’ marsupial carnivore

    Nimbacinus dicksoni was a cat-sized marsupial carnivore from the Thylacinidae family, weighing around 5 kg. It roamed the Australian landscape during the Miocene, and its fossils have been uncovered in Tertiary deposits at Riversleigh in north-western Queensland and Bullock Creek in the Northern Territory. Nimbacinus belonged to the extinct Thylacinidae family, which includes twelve species,…