- The
Phascolarctidae (φάσκωλος (phaskolos) -
pouch or bag, ἄρκτος (arktos) - bear, from the Gr****
phascolos +
arctos meaning pouched bear) is a family...
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native to Australia. It is the only
extant representative of the
family Phascolarctidae and its
closest living relatives are the wombats. The
koala is found...
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Phascolarctus is a
remnant of a
family that
includes eight to ten genera, the
Phascolarctidae,
which diverged around 26
million years ago (during the
Oligocene epoch)...
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known families within this
suborder are extinct; only the
families Phascolarctidae, with the koala, and Vombatidae, with
three extant species of wombat...
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Mammals are
divided into two
subclasses based on
reproductive techniques: egg
laying mammals (the monotremes), and live
birth mammals. The
second subclass...
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gliding possums.
Vombatiformes has only four
species in two families:
Phascolarctidae, the koala, and Vombatidae, the wombats. The
classification of species...
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Katarzyna J. (2005). "An
Early Pleistocene Record of a
Giant Koala (
Phascolarctidae, Marsupalia) from
Western Victoria" (PDF).
Australian Mammalogy. 2...
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Suborder Vombatiformes Family Vombatidae:
wombats (three species)
Family Phascolarctidae:
koala (one species)
Family †Ilariidae
Family †Maradidae
Family †Diprotodontidae:...
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sister genus Litokoala, it is the
smallest representative of
family Phascolarctidae.
Based on
cladistic analysis,
Nimiokoala is one of the more
basal genera...
- Notoryctidae:
marsupial moles Order Diprotodontia (117 species)
Family Phascolarctidae:
koala Family Vombatidae:
wombats Family Phalangeridae:
brushtail possums...
