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Wakaleo oldfieldi is the name given to fossils of a marsupial lion found in the tertiary deposits of South Australia. There are three unfussed molar teeth instead of two fussed molars as is the case with the Pleistocene Thylacoleo carnifex. This presents a species less specialised than the most advanced species just mentioned.
As with T. carnifex, this species is presumed to used its maxillary (upper) teeth to hold its food and sharpen the mandibular teeth, the later were also used in slicing and stabing during eating. The premolars also had a crescent shaped circumference for sclicing. [1]
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