Tasmanian Tiger (NHMW-ZOO-MAMM-3089)

3D Model

3D scan of a skull of a Tasmanian tiger, Tasmanian wolf or thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus). Thylacinus cynocephalus was native to Australia and one of the largest carnivorous marsupials. Long ago it became extinct on the Australian mainland and survived only in Tasmania. The last Tasmanian tiger died at Hobart Zoo, Tasmania, in 1936.

A mounted Tasmanian tiger is Number 84 of the NHM Top 100 and can be found in Hall 33 of the NHM Vienna.

Specimen: Thylacinus cynocephalus (Harris, 1808)

Inventory number: NHMW-ZOO-MAMM-3089

Collection: Natural Histroy Museum Vienna, 1st Zoological Dept., Mammal Coll. (curator: Frank E. Zachos)

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Scanned and edited by Lisa-Marie Tancsits & Viola Winkler (NHMW)

Scanner: Artec Space Spider. Infrastructure funded by the FFG.