Phascolarctos

Taxobox
name = Phascolarctos

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image_caption = A Koala climbing its new tree in Otway National Park, Victoria, Australia
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
infraclassis = Marsupialia
ordo = Diprotodontia
subordo = Vombatiformes
familia = Phascolarctidae
genus = "Phascolarctos"
genus_authority = Blainville, 1816
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "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.