 On the other hand, carnivorous marsupials have carnassial teeth.Both the living Tasmanian devil ("Sarcophilus harrisii") and the recently extinct Tasmanian wolf ("Thylacinus cynocephalus") possessed modified molars to allow for shearing, although the Tasmanian wolf, the larger of the two, had dentition more similar to the dog.The Pleistocene marsupial lion ("Thylacoleo carnifex") had massive carnassial molars.