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Phascolarctos (koala)
Taxonomy
Phascolarctos was named by de Blainville (1816). It is extant.
It was assigned to Phascolarctidae by Pocock (1921), Lundelius and Turnbull (1982), Springer et al. (1994) and McKenna and Bell (1997).
It was assigned to Phascolarctidae by Pocock (1921), Lundelius and Turnbull (1982), Springer et al. (1994) and McKenna and Bell (1997).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1816 | Phascolarctos de Blainville |
| 1921 | Phascolarctos Pocock p. 606 |
| 1982 | Phascolarctos Lundelius and Turnbull p. 13 |
| 1994 | Phascolarctos Springer et al. p. 86 |
| 1997 | Phascolarctos McKenna and Bell |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Phascolarctos de Blainville 1816 [koala]
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Phascolarctos cinereus Goldfuss 1817 [koala]
†Phascolarctos maris Pledge 1987
†Phascolarctos stirtoni Bartholomai 1968
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Bassarova et al. 2009, Lillegraven 1979, Hopson 1973, Nowak 1991, Clemens 1979 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Early/Lower Pliocene to the top of the Holocene or 5.33300 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 3.6 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 3.6 Ma
Collections (19 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Messinian - Piacenzian | Australia (South Australia) | Phascolarctos maris (50343) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene | Australia (Queensland) | Phascolarctos stirtoni (136787) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Australia ( New South Wales) | Phascolarctos stirtoni (182621) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Phascolarctos sp. (96015) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (Western Australia) | Phascolarctos cinereus (136225) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Phascolarctos cinereus (28298 135983 136076 136430) Phascolarctos sp. (136159) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (Victoria) | Phascolarctos sp. (136221) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (Queensland) | Phascolarctos sp. (136790) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (Queensland) | Phascolarctos stirtoni (136730) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Phascolarctos cinereus (136074 136075) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (Victoria) | Phascolarctos cinereus (182939) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Phascolarctos cinereus (182957) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Australia (South Australia) | Phascolarctos cinereus (136172) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Western Australia) | Phascolarctos sp. (183094) |