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Definition of Genus Thylacinus
1. Noun. Tasmanian wolf.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Dasyuridae, Family Dasyuridae, Family Dasyurinae
Member holonyms: Tasmanian Tiger, Tasmanian Wolf, Thylacine, Thylacinus Cynocephalus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Thylacinus
Literary usage of Genus Thylacinus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum, (Natural History) by Richard Lydekker (1887)
"Genus THYLACINUS, Temminck a. Dentition -.— I. \, C. ], Pm. ?, M. \. The cheek-teeth
resemble those of ..."
2. A Catalogue of Australian Fossils (including Tasmania and the Island of by Robert Etheridge (1878)
"genus Thylacinus, Temminck (see p. 194).—Marsupialia, Cave-breccia. Dasyurus, sp.
Mitchell's Two Ex- pds. Int. E. Anstr. 1838, p. 363, t. 31, f. ..."
3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1832)
"... (the D. Cynocephalus of Harris, constituting the genus Thylacinus of Temminck),
and is at the present day confined to Van Diemen's Land. ..."
4. The Geology of Sydney and the Blue Mountains: A Popular Introduction to the by John Milne Curran (1899)
"Geol. Survey of NSW, maxima. I | vol. n., p. 49. Loc. : Newcastle. genus Thylacinus.
Thylacinus. , Post Tertiary. Rec. Geol. Survey of NSW, | vol. in., p. ..."