Phascolarctos

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A Koala climbing its new tree in Otway National Park, Victoria, Australia
A Koala climbing its new tree in Otway National Park, Victoria, Australia
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Diprotodontia
Suborder: Vombatiformes
Family: Phascolarctidae
Genus: Phascolarctos
Blainville, 1816
Species

P. cinereus
†P. maris
†P. stirtoni

The genus Phascolarctos consists of 3 species, of which only one (P. cinereus, the Koala) is alive today. The largest species was P. stirtoni (or Giant Koala) that lived in the Pleistocene epoch. Giant Koala species are known only from fossils found in the Lake Eyre and Tarkarooloo basins of South Australia. Not much is known of the P. maris species.

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