Also known as Perikoala Max. Locality
Where: South Australia, Australia (28.8° S, 138.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.7° S, 133.7° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Etadunna Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
• More info may be given in Archer 1976
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by Woodburne in 1985
Collection methods: sieve,
Primary reference: M. O. Woodburne, R. H. Tedford, M. Archer and N. S. Pledge. 1987. Madakoala, A new genus and two species of Miocene Koala (Marsupialia: Phascolarctidae) from South Australia, and a new species of Perikoala. In M. Archer (ed.), Possums and Opossums: Studies in Evolution 1:293-317 [J. Alroy/A. Garcia Selles/A. Garcia Selles]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 137262: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 13.12.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Perikoala robustus Woodburne et al. 1987 koala |