The thylacine was a marsupial so it is more closely related to all other marsupials than to any placental mammal. It was called a "tiger" because of the stripes on its back but it looked more like a dog. Its closest living relatives are the dasyurids, the carnivorous marsupials, - quolls, antechinus, phascogales, Tasmanian devils, dunnarts, planigales etc.
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