袋獅

袋獅（Thylacoleo carnifex）曾經係最大隻嘅食肉有袋動物，但已經絕種。佢哋喺上新世末期至更新世末嘅澳洲生存。模式種叫劊子手袋獅（T. carnifex）。

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袋獅
化石年代：上新世末期至更新世末

袋獅嘅想像圖

物種分類

界	動物界
門	脊索動物門
綱	哺乳綱
下綱	有袋目
目	Diprotodontia
科	Thylacoleonidae
屬	Thylacoleo
種	T. carnifex

二元學名

Thylacoleo carnifex
Owen, 1859

描述

袋獅可能喺森林、林地、灌叢帶同埋河谷濕地等地獵食。

袋獅嘅近親係食齋嘅袋熊同樹熊。佢係所有現存同已絕種嘅哺乳動物中，咬合力最勁嘅，重100公斤嘅袋獅一咬可以媲美一隻重250公斤嘅獅子^[1]。佢會獵食好似雙門齒獸及巨型短面袋鼠等大型動物。佢係有袋類中專門嘅獵食者^[2]，佢嘅前肢極之強壯，有可收縮嘅爪，呢啲都係有袋類中未有過。佢有鋒利嘅裂齒同強壯嘅顎肌，可以喺獵物度撕開一大片嘅肉。呢啲特徵綜合起來估計佢好似豹咁樣，可能有能力爬樹，同保存獵物嘅腐肉。

袋獅膊頭離地75厘米，長1.5米。佢哋平均重101-130公斤，個別嘅可重達124-160公斤^[3]。體型差唔多同雌獅，老虎咁上下。

化石

袋獅嘅化石喺澳洲多個位點都有發現。2007年，喺納拉伯平原下嘅山窿就發現咗成副袋獅嘅骨同頭骨，估計佢係喺平原罅跌死嘅。^[4]另外，亦發現咗一頭幼獅喺其母獅育幼袋中嘅化石。

參考

袋獅嘅骨化石。

李察‧歐文所繪製嘅袋獅：Thylacoleo carnifex

↑ Jonathan Amos (2005-04-05). "Marsupial munch tops big biters" (英文). BBC News. 喺2008-01-25搵到.
↑ Bijal P. Trivedi (2004-03-05). "Extinct Australian "Lion" Was Big Biter, Expert Says" (英文). National Geographic Channel. 喺2008-01-25搵到.
↑ Wroe, S., Myers, T. J., Wells, R. T., and Gillespie, A. (1999). "Estimating the weight of the Pleistocene marsupial lion, Thylacoleo carnifex (Thylacoleonidae : Marsupialia): implications for the ecomorphology of a marsupial super-predator and hypotheses of impoverishment of Australian marsupial carnivore faunas". Australian Journal of Zoology (英文). 47: 489–498.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: 作者名單 (link)
↑ "Caverns give up huge fossil haul" (英文). BBC News. 2007-01-25. 喺2008-01-25搵到.

Prideaux, G.J. 2007. Megafauna, caves and climate: records from Southern Australia, Selwyn Symposium 2007 GSA Victoria Division, Geological Socitey of Autstralia, Abstracts 79, p. 11-18.
Prideaux, G.J. 2007. Mid-Pleistocene vertebrate records - Australia. In S.A. Elias (ed.), Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, pp.1518-1537. Elsevier Science.
Rich, P.V., van Tets, G.F., Knight, F. (1990) Kadimakara: Extinct Vertebrates of Australia, 2nd Edition, Princeton University Press, Princeton

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[1] Jonathan Amos (2005-04-05). "Marsupial munch tops big biters" (英文). BBC News. 喺2008-01-25搵到.

[2] Bijal P. Trivedi (2004-03-05). "Extinct Australian "Lion" Was Big Biter, Expert Says" (英文). National Geographic Channel. 喺2008-01-25搵到.

[3] Wroe, S., Myers, T. J., Wells, R. T., and Gillespie, A. (1999). "Estimating the weight of the Pleistocene marsupial lion, Thylacoleo carnifex (Thylacoleonidae : Marsupialia): implications for the ecomorphology of a marsupial super-predator and hypotheses of impoverishment of Australian marsupial carnivore faunas". Australian Journal of Zoology (英文). 47: 489–498.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: 作者名單 (link)

[4] "Caverns give up huge fossil haul" (英文). BBC News. 2007-01-25. 喺2008-01-25搵到.

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