Sarcophilus laniarius dixonae Werdelin, 1987
Dixon's devil (proposed)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Sarcophilus harrisii dixonae Wendelin, 1987
Conservation Status
Extinct (Werdelin, 1987; Jackson & Groves, 2015:59) or Invalid (synonym of S. harrisii) (Groves, 2005; Rose et al., 2017)
Distribution
Victoria, Australia
Type locality: “Mt. Hamilton”, Victoria
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Werdelin, L. (1987). Some observations on Sarcophilus laniarius and the evolution of Sarcophilus. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston 90: 1-27. [Abstract]
Other references:
Groves, Colin P. (2005). Order Dasyuromorphia, pp. 23-37. In: Wilson, Don E. and Reeder, D. A. (eds ). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Jackson, Stephen and Groves, Colin. (2015). Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Clayton South, Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing. 529 pp. [p. 59]
Lemoine, Rhys Taylor, Buitenwerf, Robert, Faurby, Sören and Svenning, Jens-Christian. (2025). Phylogenetic Evidence Supports the Effect of Traits on Late-Quaternary Megafauna Extinction in the Context of Human Activity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 34(7): e70078. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70078 [Supporting Information: Data S1]
Piper, Katarzyna J. (2007). Early Pleistocene mammals from the Nelson Bay local fauna, Portland, Victoria, Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(2): 492-503. https://doi.org/10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[492:EPMFTN]2.0.CO;2
Rose, Robert K. et al. (2017). Sarcophilus harrisii (Dasyuromorphia: Dasyuridae). Mammalian Species 49(942): 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1093/mspecies/sex001
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Travouillon, Kenny J., Jackson, Stephen, Beck, Robin M. D., Louys, Julien, Cramb, Jonathan, Gillespie, Anna, Black, Karen, Hand, Suzanne, Archer, Michael, Kear, Benjamin, Hocknull, Scott, Phillips, Matthew, McDowell, Matthew, Fitzgerald, Erich M. G., Brewer, Phillipa and Price, Gilbert J. (2024). Checklist of the Fossil Mammal Species of Australia and New Guinea. Available from: https://www.australasianpalaeontologists.com/national-fossil-species-lists [Accessed 24 November 2024]
Travouillon, Kenny J., Jackson, Stephen, Beck, Robin M. D., Louys, Julien, Cramb, Jonathan, Gillespie, Anna, Black, Karen, Hand, Suzanne, Archer, Michael, Kear, Benjamin, Hocknull, Scott, Phillips, Matthew, McDowell, Matthew, Fitzgerald, Erich M. G., Brewer, Phillipa and Price, Gilbert J. (2025). Checklist of the Fossil Mammal Species of Australia and New Guinea. Available from: https://www.australasianpalaeontologists.com/national-fossil-species-lists [Accessed 1 March 2025]