Thylacoleo carnifex

marsupial ‘lion’

This trackway includes many repeated prints of an individual Thylacoleo carnifex moving across the slope of a dune. In one particularly-well-preserved impression the scrapes left by the claws of the manus can be seen.

Skeletal element: Trackway
Specimen number: WAM 13.2.20
Significance of specimen: Provides important information about Thylacoleo locomotion
Geological age: Late Pleistocene, Tamala Limestone
State/territory: Western Australia
Locality/site: D’Entrecasteaux National Park

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