Badjcinus
genus of mammals (fossil)
Badjcinus ("expert hunter dog") was an animal that belonged to the extinct marsupial family Thylacinidae.
| Badjcinus Temporal range: Early Oligocene
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| Genus: | Badjcinus
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| Species: | B. turnbulli
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| Badjcinus turnbulli (Muirhead & Wroe, 1998)
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It was one of the most primitive members of its group, living 33 to 32 million years ago in the early Oligocene. It was quite small, averaging 5.2 lbs (2.4 kg) in weight.
Its diet probably consisted of small mammals, amphibians, reptiles and insects.
Although Badjcinus was successful in its period, it probably was pushed out by other, better developed thylacinids. The fossils were found at Riversleigh in north-west Queensland, Australia.
Wikispecies has information on: Badjcinus turnbulli.
