Phascolarctidae

Phascolarctos cinereus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Vombatiformes
Clade: Marsupialiformes Cohors: Marsupialia Cladus: Australidelphia Cladus: Eomarsupialia Ordo: Diprotodontia Subordo: Vombatiformes

Familia: Phascolarctidae
Genera (8): Phascolarctos – †Invictokoala – †Litokoala – †Madakoala – †Nimiokoala – †Perikoala – †Priscakoala – ?†Koobor

Name

Phascolarctidae Owen, 1839

• Type genus: Phascolarctos Blainville, 1816

References

Additional references

• Groves, C.P. 2005. Order Diprotodontia. Pp. 43–70 in Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. (eds.) . Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd edition. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore. 2 volumes. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. Reference page. 
• Archer, M.; Black, K.; Nettle, K. 1997: Giant ringtail possums (Marsupialia, Pseudocheiridae) and giant koalas (Phascolarctidae) from the Late Cainozoic of Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 117: 3–15.
• Black, K. 1999: Diversity and relationships of living and extinct koalas (Phascolarctidae, Marsupialia). Australian mammalogy, 21: 16–17. ISSN: 0310-0049 [not seen]
• Black, K.; Archer, M. 1997: Nimiokoala gen. nov. (Marsupialia, Phascolarctidae) from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, with a revision of Litokoala. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 41: 209–228.
• Pledge, N.S. 1992: The Curramulka local fauna: a new Late Tertiary fossil assemblage from Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. Beagle, 9: 115–142. ISSN: 0811-3653
• Price, G.J.; Zhao, J-x.; Feng, Y-x.; Hocknull, S.A. 2009: New records of Plio-Pleistocene koalas from Australia: palaeoecological and taxonomic implications. Records of the Australian Museum, 61: 39–48. ISSN: 0067-1975 DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.61.2009.1518
• Woodburne, M.O.; Tedford, R.H.; Archer, M.; Pledge, N.S. 1987: Madakoala, a new genus and two species of Miocene koalas (Marsupialia: Phascolarctidae) from South Australia, and a new species of Perikoala. Pp. 293–317 in: Archer, M. (ed.) Possums and opossums: studies in evolution. Surrey Beatty & Sons Pty Limited, England, Chipping Norton. ISBN 0949324051

Vernacular names

español: Fascolárctidos

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