Invictokoala

Extinct genus of marsupials

Invictokoala
Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Phascolarctidae
Genus: Invictokoala
Price & Hocknull, 2011
Species:
I. monticola
Binomial name
Invictokoala monticola
Price & Hocknull, 2011

Invictokoala monticola is an extinct phascolarctid marsupial mammal from the middle Pleistocene of central-eastern Queensland, Australia. The holotype was found during cave excavations at Mount Etna (a local mountain in central-eastern Queensland which was named after the famed Sicilian volcano). It was first named by Gilbert J. Price and Scott A. Hocknull in 2011.[1]

References

  1. ^ Price, Gilbert J.; Hocknull, Scott A. (2011). "Invictokoala monticola gen. et sp. nov. (Phascolarctidae, Marsupialia), a Pleistocene plesiomorphic koala holdover from Oligocene ancestors" (PDF). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 9 (2): 327–335. Bibcode:2011JSPal...9..327P. doi:10.1080/14772019.2010.504079. S2CID 84316375.
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Thylacoleonidae
Phascolarctidae
Ilariidae
Wynyardiidae
Vombatoidea
Vombatidae
Diprotodontoidea
Palorchestidae
Diprotodontidae
Thylacoleo carnifex Diprotodon optatum
Taxon identifiers
Invictokoala
Invictokoala monticola


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