The Phascolarctidae (φάσκωλος (phaskolos) - pouch or bag, ἄρκτος (arktos) - bear, from the Greek phascolos + arctos meaning pouched bear) is a family...
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Phascolarctus is a remnant of a family that includes eight to ten genera, the Phascolarctidae, which diverged around 26 million years ago (during the Oligocene epoch)...
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native to Australia. It is the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae. Its closest living relatives are the wombats. The koala is found in...
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known families within this suborder are extinct; only the families Phascolarctidae, with the koala, and Vombatidae, with three extant species of wombat...
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Mammals are divided into two subclasses based on reproductive techniques: egg laying mammals (the monotremes), and live birth mammals. The second subclass...
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List of diprotodonts (section Phascolarctidae)
gliding possums. Vombatiformes has only four species in two families: Phascolarctidae, the koala, and Vombatidae, the wombats. The classification of species...
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Suborder Vombatiformes Family Vombatidae: wombats (three species) Family Phascolarctidae: koala (one species) Family †Ilariidae Family †Maradidae Family †Diprotodontidae:...
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sister genus Litokoala, it is the smallest representative of family Phascolarctidae. Based on cladistic analysis, Nimiokoala is one of the more basal genera...
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Katarzyna J. (2005). "An Early Pleistocene Record of a Giant Koala (Phascolarctidae, Marsupalia) from Western Victoria" (PDF). Australian Mammalogy. 2...
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lucyturnbullae: the most plesiomorphic definitive koala (Marsupialia, Phascolarctidae) from the early Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland". (not...
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"Madakoala, a new genus and two species of Miocene koalas (Marsupialia: Phascolarctidae) from South Australia, and a new species of Perikoala". In Archer,...
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Notoryctidae: marsupial moles Order Diprotodontia (117 species) Family Phascolarctidae: koala Family Vombatidae: wombats Family Phalangeridae: brushtail possums...
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This is a list of mammals of South Australia. It includes all mammals recorded in South Australia since European settlement, including some known only...
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Notoryctemorphia (marsupial moles) Family Notoryctidae Order Diprotodontia Family Phascolarctidae (koalas) Family Vombatidae (wombats) Family Phalangeridae (brushtail...
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diprotodonts Suborder Vombatiformes Family Vombatidae: wombats Family Phascolarctidae: koalas Family † Diprotodontidae Family † Palorchestidae: marsupial...
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†Thylacoleonidae Enigmaleo Lekaneleo Microleo Thylacoleo Wakaleo Phascolarctidae †Invictokoala †Koobor †Litokoala †Madakoala †Nimiokoala †Perikoala Phascolarctos...
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Genus Rhynchomeles Seram bandicoot, (Rhynchomeles prattorum) Family Phascolarctidae (koala) Genus Phascolarctos Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) Family Vombatidae...
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Hocknull, Scott A. (2011). "Invictokoala monticola gen. et sp. nov. (Phascolarctidae, Marsupialia), a Pleistocene plesiomorphic koala holdover from Oligocene...
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Phascolarctidae Vombatidae (wombats)...
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