tail. Currently, the Nullarbor Plain of West Australia remains to be the greatest finding site. These fossils now reside at the Australian Museum. It was reported that in 2012, an accumulation of vertebrate trace and body fossils were found in the Victorian Volcanic Plains in south-eastern Australia. It was determined that Thylacoleo was the only taxon that represented three divergent fossil records: skeletal, footprints, and bite marks. What this suggests is that these large carnivores had behavioral characteristics that could have increased their likelihood of their presence being detected within a fossil fauna. A characteristic seen in the remains of skull fragments is a set of carnassial teeth, suggesting the carnivorous habits of Thylacoleo''. Tooth fossils of the thylacoleo exhibit specific degrees of erosion that are credited to the utility of the carnassial teeth remains as they were used for hunting and consuming prey in a prehistoric Australia teeming with other megafauna. The specialisation found in the dental history of the marsupial indicates its status in the predatory hierarchy in which it existed. References External links New study finds no evidence for theory humans wiped out megafauna Thylacoleo - Australia's Marsupial Lion Thylacoleo in Pleistocene Australia Steve Wroe's Web Page: Australian Megafauna Western Australian Museum: Thylacoleo - a voracious hunter PLEDGE. N 1977, A NEW SPECIES OF THYLACOLEO (MARSUPIALIA: THYLACOLEONIDAE) WITH NOTES ON THE OCCURRENCES AND DISTRIBUTION OF THYLACOLEONIDAE IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA Prehistoric vombatiforms Prehistoric mammals of Australia Pliocene marsupials Pleistocene marsupials Pleistocene genus extinctions Carnivorous marsupials Prehistoric marsupial genera Taxa named by Richard Owen Fossil taxa described in 1859 Apex predators