Re: recently extinct groups

[Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>]

Quoting "A.P. Hazen" <a.hazen@philosophy.unimelb.edu.au>:

> Tommy Tyrberg wrote:
>         "There are actually quite a few extinct high-level taxa
>         that are potentially within range for sequencing, i e became
>         extinct in the Late Pleistocene or Holocene. These are
>         the ones I can think of:"
> with a list of Theropod taxa (that gets a dinosaur reference into this
> post!) and the mammal "families":

> Diprotodontidae
> Thylacoleonidae...

For those of us here in Australia, tonight's episode of Catalyst  
concerns a Thylacoleo skeleton (amongst other species) found in caves  
in Western Australia a couple of years ago (I believe this was the  
same cache of skeletons that included the horned wallabies). It's said  
to be the most complete Thylacoleo specimen ever found. The episode  
includes lots of decent-looking CGI reconstructions (for those who  
lack imaginations of their own...)

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Dann Pigdon
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