Madakoala

Madakoala was a genus of extinct phascolarctid marsupials with only three known subspecies, Madakoala devisi, Madakoala wellsi and Madakoala robustus, and seven sister species, Invictokoala, Koobor, Litokoala, Nimiokoala, Perikoala, Phascolarctos, and Priscakoala with only Phascolarctos having an extant species. Madakoala went extinct around 280,000 years ago in the Pleistocene epoch.[1] They are known to exist by limited cranial material in fossils, so the existence of some of the subspecies is questionable because of missing dental data.[2]

Madakoala
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Phascolarctidae
Genus: †Madakoala
Woodburne, Tedford, Archer, and Pledge, 1987
Species
  • †Madakoala devisi[1]
  • ††Madakoala wellsi[1]
  • †Madakoala robustus[1]

References
  1. 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". In Archer, M. (ed.). Possums and opossums: studies in evolution. Chipping Norton, NSW: Surrey Beatty & Sons. pp. 293–317. ISBN 0949324051.
  2. BLACK, K., ARCHER, M., & HAND, S. (2012). NEW TERTIARY KOALA (MARSUPIALIA, PHASCOLARCTIDAE) FROM RIVERSLEIGH, AUSTRALIA, WITH A REVISION OF PHASCOLARCTID PHYLOGENETICS, PALEOECOLOGY, AND PALEOBIODIVERSITY. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 32(1), 125-138. Retrieved March 26, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/41407712


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