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Thylacoleo carnifex
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/thylacoleo-carnifex/Thylacoleo carnifex, the largest carnivorous Australian mammal known, may have hunted other Pleistocene megafauna like the giant Diprotodon. Thylacoleo was one of the first fossil mammals described from Australia, discovered not long after European settlement.
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Steropodon galmani
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/steropodon-galmani/Steropodon galmani, a platypus-like monotreme from the Early Cretaceous of Australia, was the first Mesozoic mammal discovered from Australia. It is known from an opalised lower jaw with molar teeth found at the mining town of Lightning Ridge in north central New South Wales.
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Nimbacinus dicksoni
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/nimbacinus-dicksoni/Nimbacinus dicksoni was a small, fox-sized thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial distantly related to the 'Tasmanian Tiger' (Thylacinus cynocephalus). Thylacines were the main mammalian predators of the Miocene.
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Moorish Idol, Zanclus cornutus (Linnaeus, 1758)
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/moorish-idol-zanclus-cornutus-linnaeus-1758/Moorish Idol, Zanclus cornutus (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Northern Saratoga, Scleropages jardinii (Saville-Kent, 1892)
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/northern-saratoga-scleropages-jardinii/Northern Saratoga, Scleropages jardinii (Saville-Kent, 1892)
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Mother-of-pearl Pipefish, Vanacampus margaritifer (Peters, 1869)
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/mother-of-pearl-pipefish-vanacampus-margaritifer-peters-1869/Mother-of-pearl Pipefish, Vanacampus margaritifer (Peters, 1869)
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Ambon Damsel, Pomacentrus amboinensis (Bleeker, 1868)
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/ambon-damsel-pomacentrus-amboinensis-bleeker-1868/Ambon Damsel, Pomacentrus amboinensis (Bleeker, 1868)
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