Ref sheet for my charrie Hylo, for Paleo_Exchange on Livejournal. Go join! :D http://community.livejournal.com/paleo_exchange/ There will be much happy if you do!

Anyway, Hylo is a Thylacoleo Carnifex, an extinct Australian carnivore called the 'marsupial lion'. The earliest known specimens are from around 24 million years ago, and they were thought to have become extinct around 50,000 years ago. They had a variety of very unique traits, including the first retractable claws on a marsupial. Comparing their body size with other carnivores, they also had the strongest bite of any mammal species, living or extinct. A 220 pound carnifex had a bite comparable to a 550 lion.

Also, their dental anatomy was amazingly odd. Unlike nearly all other carnivorous mammals, their canine teeth were small and useless. Insead, their incisors took up nearly the entire mouth and were used to slice meat to ribbons, while their front teeth (both top and bottom) were used to grip teeth in place of the canines.

In the ref sheet, all the pictures except the three on the bottom relate directly to Hylo. The female and baby and just size comparison to a normal carnifex male. Also, the rosettes were nixed; ignore those.