
%0 Journal Article
%A J, . 
%T A specialised thylacinid , Thylacinus macknessi, (Marsupialia: Thylacinidae) from Miocene deposits of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland.
%J Australian Mammalogy
%D 1992/01/01
%V 15
%N 1
%P 67-76
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/AM92009
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/AM92009 
%X Thylacinus macknessi is described from Miocene sediments of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Comparisons with other thylacinids and dasyurids reveal it to be a new species of Thylacinus. In most features it is as specialised as T. cynocephalus and it is not considered to be ancestral to any other taxon. The presence of such a specialised thylacine in the Riversleigh deposits argues for a pre-Late Oligocene divergence of this group from the Dasyuridae. 
