Biology:Madakoala
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Short description: Genus of mammals
| Madakoala | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | Phascolarctidae |
| Genus: | †Madakoala Woodburne, Tedford, Archer, and Pledge, 1987 |
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Madakoala is a genus of extinct phascolarctid marsupials with three known species, Madakoala devisi, Madakoala wellsi and Madakoala robustus. It is allied to extinct genera Invictokoala, Koobor, Litokoala, Nimiokoala, Perikoala, Phascolarctos and Priscakoala, along with Phascolarctos, the genus of the existing koala. 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]
References
- ↑ Black, Karen H.; Archer, Michael; Hand, Suzanne J. (2012). "New Tertiary Koala (Marsupialia, Phascolarctidae) From Riversleigh, Australia, With a Revision of Phascolarctid Phylogenetics, Paleoecology, and Paleobiodiversity" (in en). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32 (1): 125–138. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.626825. ISSN 0272-4634. Bibcode: 2012JVPal..32..125B. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41407712. Retrieved March 26, 2021.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q21358934 entry
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