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Introducing the Thylacine -

ARCHER, M., 1974a. New information about the Quaternary distribution of the thylacine (Marsupialia, Thylacinidae) in Australia. J. Roy. Soc. W. Aust. 57: 43-50.

BAILEY, C., 2001. "Tiger Tales. Stories of the Tasmanian Tiger". HarperCollinsPublishers: Sydney. pp. 105-6.

COLLINS, L. R., 1973. "Monotremes and marsupials. A reference for zoological institutions". Smithson. Inst. Press: Washington, D.C.: v + 323 pp.

GUILER, E. R., 1961. Breeding season of the Thylacine. J. Mammal. 42: 396-7.

HEUVELMANS, B., 1958. "On the Track of Unknown Animals". Hill and Wang: New York. 558 pp.

MOELLER, H. F., 1972. Tasmanian Wolf, in "Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia - Vol. 10 (Mammals I)" (Ed. B. Grzimek). Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.: New York. pp. 286-93.

NOWAK, R. M., AND PARADISO, J. L., 1983. "Walker's Mammals of the World - Vol. 1". 4th ed. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press: Baltimore. pp. 26-27.

PADDLE, R., 2000. "The Last Tasmanian Tiger. The History and Extinction of the Thylacine". Cambridge Univ. Press: Cambridge. pp. 224-32.

PARTRIDGE, J., 1967. A 3,300 year old thylacine (Marsupialia: Thylacinidae) from the Nullarbor Plain, Western Australia. J. Roy. Soc. W. Aust. 50: 57-59.

RIDE, W.D.L., 1970. "A guide to the native mammals of Australia". Oxford Univ. Press: Melbourne. xiv + 249 pp.

SUTCLIFFE, A. J., 1985. "On the Track of Ice Age Mammals". Harvard Univ. Press: Cambridge. pp. 186-99.

ZINSMEISTER, W. J., 1986. Fossil Windfall at Antarctica's Edge. Nat. Hist. 95: 60-67


The Natural History of Thylacinus cynocephalus -

ANONYMOUS, 1969. Tigers, Devils, monsters and things that walk in the night. Wildl. in Aust. 6: 54.

ANONYMOUS, 1973a. Another strange beast sighted on Tableland. Cairns Post 17 Jan. 1973.

ANONYMOUS, 1973b. Aloomba woman reports seeing Tableland beast. Cairns Post 18 Jan. 1973.

ANONYMOUS, 1974a. Paintings of Tas. Tiger found in NT. Sydney Morning Herald 27 April 1974.

ANONYMOUS, 1974b. The Northern Territory's prehistoric tiger. Sydney Morning Herald 6 May 1974.

ANONYMOUS, 1977a. 'Tiger' now in baby mystery. Sunday Telegraph (Sydney) 27 March 1977.

ANONYMOUS, 1977b. 'Extinct' Tiger seen claim two. Sunday Telegraph (Sydney) 21 Aug. 1977.

ARCHER, M., 1971. A re-evaluation of the Fromm's Landing Thylacine tooth. Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict. 84: 229-34.

ARCHER, M., 1974. New information about the Quaternary distribution of the Thylacine (Marsupialia, Thylacinidae) in Australia. J. Roy. Soc. W. Aust. 57: 43-50.

ARCHER, M., 1976a. Miocene marsupicarnivores (Marsupialia) from central South Australia, Ankotarinja tirarensis gen. et sp. nov., Keeuna woodburnei gen. et sp. nov., and their significance in terms of early marsupial radiations. Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust. 100: 54-73.

ARCHER, M., 1976b. The basicranial region of marsupicarnivores (Marsupialia), inter-relationships of carnivorous marsupials, and the affinities of the insectivorous marsupial peramelids. Zool. I. Linn. Soc. Lond. 59: 217-322.

ARCHER, M., 1976c. The dasyurid dentition and its relationships to that of didelphids, thylacinids, borhyaenids (Marsupicarnivora) and peramelids (Peramelina: Marsupialia). Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. 39.

ARCHER, M., CLAYTON, G. AND HAND, S., 1984. "Vertebrate Zoogeography and Evolution in Australasia". Hesperian Press: Carlisle. p. 520

BARTHOLOMAI, A., 1977. The fossil vertebrate fauna from Pleistocene deposits at Cement Mills, Gove, southeastern  Queensland. Mem. Qd Mus. 18: 69-73.

BAYNES, A., MERRILEES, D. AND PORTER, J. K., 1975. Mammal remains from the upper level of a late Pleistocene   deposit in Devil's Lair, Western Australia. J. Roy. Soc. W. Aust. 49: 88-90.

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BENSLEY, B. A., 1903. On the evolution of the Australian Marsupialia; with remarks on the relationships of the marsupials in general. Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9: 83-218.

BOARDMAN, F., 1945. Some points on the external morphology of pouch young of the Marsupial, Thylacinus cynocephalus Harris. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 70: 1.

BRANDL, E. J., 1972. Thylacine designs in Arnhem Land rock paintings. Archaeol. Phys. Anthrop. Oceania 7: 24-30.

BROOM, R., 1896. Report on a bone brecia near Wombeyan Caves, N.S.W. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 21: 48-61.

CALABY, J. H. AND WHITE, C., 1967. The Tasmanian Devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) in northern Australia in recent times.  Aust. J. Sci. 29: 473-5.

COLUVER, F. S., 1938. Cave hunting in Victoria. Vict. Nat. 54: 152-5.

COOK, D. L., 1963. Thylacinus and Sarcophilus from the Nullarbor Plain. W. Aust. Nat. 9: 47-8.

CRISP, E., 1855. On some points relating to the anatomy of the Tasmanian Wolf (Thylacinus) and of the Cape Hunting Dog. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 23: 188-91.

CUNNINGHAM, D. J. C., 1882. Some points on the anatomy of the thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), cuscus (Phalangista maculata) and Phascogale (Phascogale calura), collected by H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873-1876; with an account of the comparative anatomy of the intrinsic muscles and nerves of the mammalian pes. The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger. Zoology. V. Part II. p. 192.

DE VIS, C. W., 1894. A thylacine of the early Nototherium Period in Queensland. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 8: 443-7.

FISHER, B. D., 1974. Tasmanian Tigers still exist. Sun (Sydney) 25 Feb. 1974.

FLEAY, D., 1946. On the tracks of the Marsupial Wolf. Vict. Nat. 63: 129-35, 154-9, 174-7.

FLEMING, A. L., 1938. The Thylacine. Reports on two expeditions in search of the Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger or Tasmanian Wolf). J. Soc. Preservation Fauna of Empire 35: 20-5.

FLOWER, S. S., 1931. Contribution to our knowledge of the duration of life in vertebrate animals. 5. Mammals. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. pp. 145-234.

FLOWER, W. H., 1865. On the commissures of the cerebral hemispheres of the Marsupialia and Monotremata as compared with those of Placental Mammals. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. 55: 633-51 & Taf. 36, 38.

FLOWER, W. H., 1867. On the development and succession of the teeth in the Marsupialia. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. 157: 631-41.

GERVAIS, P., 1837. Mémoire sur les Formes Cérebrales propres aux Marsupiaux. Nouv. Arch. Mus. (Paris). pp. 229-51, pls xviii, xiv.

GILL, E. D., 1953. Distribution of the Tasmanian Devil, the Tasmanian Wolf, and the Dingo in Southeast Australia in  Quaternary times. Vic. Nat. 70: 86-90.

GLAUERT, L., 1954. The cave fossils of the southwest. W. Aust. Nat. 1: 100-4.

GOULD, J., 1863. "Mammals of Australia". London.

GRIFFITH, J., 1972. The search for the Tasmanian Tiger. Nat. Hist. 81: 70-7

GRIFFITH, J., MALLEY, J. AND BROWN, R., 1972. "The report of the search for the Thylacine that was conducted by Jeremy Griffith, James Malley and Robert Brown". Unpublished mimeographed report.

GRZIMEK, B., 1967. "Four-legged Australians. Adventures with animals and men in Australia". Collins: London and Sydney; translated by J. M., Brown-john.

GUILER, E. R., 1958. The Thylacine. Aust. Mus. Mag. 12: 352-4.

GUILER, E. R., 1961a. Breeding season of the Thylacine. J. Mammal. 42: 396-7.

GUILER, E. R., 1961b. The former distribution and decline of the Thylacine. Aust. J. Sci. 23: 207-10.

GUILER. E. R., 1966. In pursuit of the Thylacine. Oryx 8: 307-10.

GUILER, E. R. AND MELDRUM, G. K., 1958. Suspected sheep killing by the Thylacine, Thylacinus cynocephalus. Aust. J. Sci. 20: 214-5.

GUILER, E. R. AND GODARD, P., 1998. "Tasmanian Tiger. A lesson to be learnt". Abrolhos Publishing: Perth. p. 84.

GUNN, R., 1863. Letter announcing the shipment of living Thylacines, with remarks on their habits. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 31: 103-4.

HARRIS, G. P., 1808. Description of two new species of Didelphis from Van Diemen's Land. Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9: 174-8.

HARRIS, SAMELA, 1968. Hold that tiger! Walkabout 34(6): 28-31.

HEUVELMANS, B., 1962. "On the track of unknown animals". Rupert Hart-Davis: London.

HOPE, JEANETTE, 1974. Palaeoecological reconstruction from small mammal faunas in the Buchan area, Victoria. Paper presented at the 15th General Meeting of the Australian Mammal Society, Monash University: Melbourne. May 1974.

HOWLETT, R. M., 1960. A further discovery of Thylacinus at Augusta, Western Australia. W. Aust. Nat. 7: 136.

HUGHES, R. LEON, 2000. Structure of the female reproductive tract of an adult parous Tasmanian tiger, Thylacinus cynocephalus. Aust. Jour. Zool. 48(5): 487-99.

JONES, F. W., 1923. "The mammals of South Australia. I. Monotremes and the carnivorous marsupials". Government Printer: Adelaide, Sth Aust.

KENDRICK, G. W. AND PORTER, JENNIFER, K., 1973. Remains of a Thylacine (Marsupialia: Dasyuroidae) and other fauna from caves in the Cape Range, Western Australia. J. Roy. Soc. W. Aust. 56: 116-22.

KOLIG, E., 1973. Aboriginal man's best foe? Mankind 9: 122-4.

LE SOUEF, A. S. AND BURRELL, H., 1926. "The wild animals of Australasia, embracing the mammalogy of New Guinea and the nearer Pacific Islands. With a chapter on the bats of Australia and New Guinea by Ellis LeG. Troughton". George G. Harrap: London.

LORD, C., 1927. Existing Tasmanian marsupials. Pap. Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm. 1927: 17-24.

LOWRY, D. C. AND LOWRY, JACOBA, W. J., 1967. Discovery of a Thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) carcass in a cave near Eucla, Western Australia. Helictite. 5: 25.

LOWRY, JACOBA, W. J., 1972. The taxonomic status of small forest Thylacines (Marsupialia, Thylacinidae), from Western Australia. J. Roy. Soc. W. Aust. 55: 19-29.

LOWRY, JACOBA, W. J. AND MERRLIEES, D., 1969. Age of the desiccated carcase of a Thylacine (Marsupialia, Dasyuriodea) from Thylacine Hole, Nullarbor Region, Western Australia. Helictite. 7: 15-6.

LYNE, A. G., 1959. The systematic and adaptive significance of the vibrissae in the Marsupialia. Proc. Zool Soc. Lond. 133: 79-133.

LYNE, A. G., AND MCMAHON, T. S., 1951. Observations on the surface structure of the hairs of Tasmanian Monotremes and Marsupials. Pap. Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm. 1951: 71-84.

MAKEIG, P., 1970. Is there a Queensland marsupial tiger? N. Qd Nat. 37(152): 6-8

MARSHALL, L. G., 1974. Late Pleistocene mammals from the "Keilor Cranium Site", southern Victoria, Australia. Mem.  Natl. Mus. Vict. 35: 63-86.

MERRILEES, D., 1970. A check on the radiocarbon dating of desiccated Thylacine (Marsupial "wolf") and dog tissue from Thylacine Hole, Nullarbor Region Western Australia. Helictite. 8: 39-42.

MOELLER, H., 1968. Zur Frage der Parallelerscheinungen bei Metatheria und Eutheria. Vergleichende Untersuchungen an Beutelwolf und Wolf. Z. wiss. Zool. Leipzig. 177(3/4): 283-392.

MOELLER, H., 1970. Comparative studies of the brain of the greater dasyurids (Thylacinus, Sarcophilus and Dasyurus) with regard to their evolutionary status. Z. f. zool. Syst. Evolutionsforsch. Hamburg. 8(1): 69-80.

MOELLER, H., 1973 Zur Kenntnis der Schädelgestalt großer Raubbeutler (Dasyuridae Waterhouse, 1938). Eine allometrische Formanalyse. Zool. Jb. Anat. 91: 257-303.

MOELLER, H., 1997. "Der Beutelwolf". Westarp Wissenschaften: Magdeburg. p. 74-75.

MUIR, E. COLLINE, 1961. Tracks of the Thylacine. Vic. Nat. 78: 69-70.

MULVANEY, D. J., LAWTON, G. H. AND TWIDALE, C. R., 1964. Archaeological excavation of Rock Shelter No. 6. Fromm's Landing, South Australia. Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict. 77: 479-516.

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PARAMONOV, S. J. 1968. Is the Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacinus) extinct on the Australian mainland? W. Aust. Nat. 10: 171-2.

PARTRIDGE, JEANETTE, 1967. A 3,300 year old Thylacine (Marsupialia, Thylacinus) from the Nullarbor Plain. J. Roy. Soc. W. Aust. 50: 57-9.

PATERSON, W., 1805. Sydney Gazetter and New South Wales Advertiser 3(112), 21 April 1805.

PEARSON, J. AND DE BAVAY, J. M., 1953. The urogenital system of the Dasyurinae and Thylacininae (Marsupialia, Dasyuridae). Pap. Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm. 87: 175-99.

PLEDGE, N., 1974. Excavations in the Henschke's Quarry Cave, Naracoorte - a late Pleistocene fauna. Paper presented at the 15th General Meeting of the Australian Mammal Society, Monash University: Melbourne May, 1974.

POCOCK, R., 1926. The external characters of Thylacinus, Sarcophilus and some related marsupials. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1926: 1037-84.

RENSHAW, G., 1938. The Thylacine. J. Soc. Preservation Fauna of Empire. 35: 47-9.

RIDE, W. D. L., 1964. A review of Australian fossil marsupials. Presidential Address, 1963. J. Roy. Soc. W. Aust. 47: 97-131.

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SCOTT, W. J., 1872. Letter, addressed to the Secretary, respecting the supposed "native tiger" of Queensland. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1872: 355.

SHARLAND, M. S. R., 1939. In search of the Thylacine. Proc. Roy. Zool. Soc. N.S.W. 1938-39: 20-36.

SMITH, M., 1982. Review of the Thylacine (Marsupialia, Thylacinidae). In "Carnivorous Marsupials - Vol. 1" (Ed. M. Archer). Roy. Zool. Soc. N.S.W.: Sydney. pp. 237-53.

SMITH, M., 1996. "Bunyips & Bigfoots. In Search of Australia's Mystery Animals". Millennium Books: Alexandria. p. 106.

SMITH, MEREDITH, 1972. Small fossil vertebrates from Victoria Cave, Naracoorte, South Australia. II. Peramelidae, Thylacinidae and Dasyuridae. Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust. 96: 125-38

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TATE, G. H. H., 1947. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 56. On the anatomy and classification of the Dasyuridae  (Marsupialia) Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 88: 101-55.

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WAKEFIELD, N. A., 1963. Sub-fossils from Mount Hamilton, Victoria. Vict. Nat. 79: 323-30.

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The Thylacine Films -

FLEAY, D., 1963. Strange Animals of Australia. Nat. Geographic. 124(3): 405.


Some Thylacine Relics -

ARCHER, M., 1982. A review of Miocene thylacinids (Thylacinidae, Marsupialia), the phylogenetic position of the Thylacinidae and the problem of apriorisms in character analysis. In "Carnivorous Marsupials - Vol. 2" (Ed. M. Archer). Roy. Zool. Soc. N.S.W.: Sydney. pp. 445-76.

ARCHER, M., 1983. "Prehistoric Animals of Australia". The Australian Museum: Sydney. p. 48.

ARCHER, M., HAND, S. J. AND GODTHELP, H., 2000. "Australia's Lost World. Prehistoric Animals of Riversleigh". Indiana Univ. Press: Bloomington. p. 9.

LONG, J., ARCHER, M., FLANNERY, T. AND HAND, S., 2002. "Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea". Johns Hopkins Univ. Press: Baltimore. pp. 58-63.

MOELLER, H., 1997. "Der Beutelwolf". Westarp Wissenschaften: Magdeburg. p. 74-75.

MUIRHEAD, J. AND GILLESPIE, A.K., 1995.  Additional parts of the type specimen of Thylacinus macknessi (Marsupialia: Thylacinidae) from Miocene deposits of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Aust. Mammal. 18: 55-60.

MUIRHEAD, J. AND WROE, S., 1998. A new genus and species, Badjcinus turnbulli (Thylacinidae: Marsupialia), from the Late Oligocene of Riversleigh, northern Australia, and an investigation of thylacinid phylogeny. Jour. Vert. Paleo. 18(3): 612-26. (available at http://www.bio.usyd.edu.au/staff/swroe/Badjcinusturnbulli.pdf)

MURRAY, P. AND MEGIRIAN. D., 2000. Two new genera and three new species of Thylacinidae (Marsupialia) from the Miocene of the Northern Territory, Australia. The Beagle (Rec. Mus. Art Galleries N. Terr.). 16: 145-62. (available at http://www.dcdsca.nt.gov.au/dcdsca/intranet.nsf/Files/Beagle/$file/p145_v16_2000.pdf)

RIDE, W. D. L., 1964. A review of Australian fossil marsupials. Presidential Address, 1963. J. Roy. Soc. W. Aust. 47: 97-131.

STIRTON, R. A., TEDFORD, R. H. AND WOODBURNE, M. 0., 1967. A new Tertiary formation and fauna from the Tirrari Desert, South Australia. Rec. S. Aust. Mus. 15: 427-62.

WOODBURNE, M. 0., 1967. The Alcoota fauna, central Australia. An integrated palaeontological and geological study. Bur. Min. Res. Geol. Geophys. Bull. 87: 1-187.

WROE, S. 2001. Maximucinus muirheadae, gen. et sp. nov. (Thylacinidae: Marsupialia), from the Miocene of Riversleigh, north-western Queensland, with estimates of body weights for fossil thylacinids. Aust. Jour. Zool. 49: 603-14. (available at http://www.bio.usyd.edu.au/staff/research/swroe/Maximucinus.pdf)

WROE, S. AND MUSSER, A., 2001. The skull of Nimbacinus dicksoni (Thylacinidae: Marsupialia). Aust. Jour. Zool. 49: 487-514. (available at http://www.bio.usyd.edu.au/staff/swroe/Nimbacinus.pdf)


Additional Thylacine Topics -

BAILEY, C., 2001. "Tiger Tales. Stories of the Tasmanian Tiger". HarperCollinsPublishers: Sydney. pp. 105-6.

GUILER, E. R., 1986. The Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart. Pap. Proc. Tasm. Hist. Res. Assoc. 33(4): 121-71.

FLEAY, D., 1963. Strange Animals of Australia. Nat. Geographic. 124(3): 405.

O'NEILL, G., 1999. Test tube tigers. The Bulletin 16 Nov. 1999. pp. 44-46.

PADDLE, R., 2000. "The Last Tasmanian Tiger. The History and Extinction of the Thylacine". Cambridge Univ. Press: Cambridge. pp. 200-1.


More Features -

PADDLE, R., 2000. "The Last Tasmanian Tiger. The History and Extinction of the Thylacine". Cambridge Univ. Press: Cambridge. pp. 224-32.

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