This article explores the processes leading up to the description of Thylacoleo carnifex by Richard Owen in 1859. It argues that it resulted from thirty years of searching for extinct marsupial predators in Australian fossil sites, starting with the discovery of the first Australian marsupial megafauna fossils in 1830. Australian farmers, colonial and metropolitan scientists and anonymous indigenous informants conducted this search. Together these individuals formed a scientific network that found, shipped and inscribed fossils as marsupial carnivores. This network involved the constant movement of ideas, people and fossils to and from the Australian colonies as colonial investigators sought patronage, personal status and the incorporation of Australian deep time within European theoretical models. This networked model demonstrates the agency of colonial investigators without flattening the very real power differentials they had to negotiate when metropolitan experts sought out specimens, correspondents and supporters.

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制作“有袋动物的狮子”：Bunyips，1830 年之间的网络化殖民知识生产？59 和 Thylacoleo carnifex 的描述

本文探讨了导致 Richard Owen 于 1859 年描述 Thylacoleo carnifex 的过程。它认为这是三十年在澳大利亚化石遗址寻找已灭绝的有袋动物捕食者的结果，首先是在澳大利亚发现了第一批澳大利亚有袋动物巨型动物化石。 1830. 澳大利亚农民、殖民地和都市科学家以及匿名的土著线人进行了这项搜索。这些人一起形成了一个科学网络，发现、运输和记录了作为有袋动物食肉动物的化石。这个网络涉及到澳大利亚殖民地的思想、人和化石的不断流动，因为殖民调查人员寻求赞助、个人地位以及将澳大利亚的深层时间纳入欧洲理论模型。