Perikoala

Perikoala; Temporal range: Late Oligocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Marsupialia
Order:	Diprotodontia
Family:	Phascolarctidae
Genus:	†Perikoala; Stirton, 1957

Perikoala is an extinct genus of marsupials, related to the modern koala. The genus diverged from a common ancestor of the other koala genera Nimiokoala, Litokoala, and Phascolarctos, which contains the living koala.^[1]

Two species are recognised

Stirton 1957^[2]
Woodburne et al. 1987^[3]^[4]

References[]

^ John A. Long, Michael Archer (2002). Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution. UNSW Press. p. 79. ISBN 0868404357.
^ Perikoala palankarinnica Stirton 1957 (koala) at fossilworks.org (retrieved 12 February 2022)
^ 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. Possums and Opossums: Studies in Evolution 1:293-317
^ Perikoala robustus Woodburne et al. 1987 (koala) at fossilworks.org (retrieved 12 February 2022)

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[1] John A. Long, Michael Archer (2002). Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution. UNSW Press. p. 79. ISBN 0868404357.

[2] Perikoala palankarinnica Stirton 1957 (koala) at fossilworks.org (retrieved 12 February 2022)

[3] 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. Possums and Opossums: Studies in Evolution 1:293-317

[4] Perikoala robustus Woodburne et al. 1987 (koala) at fossilworks.org (retrieved 12 February 2022)

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