Riversleigh Rainforest Koala
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Riversleigh Rainforest Koala
Fossil range: middle Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Phascolarctidae
Genus: Nimiokoala
Species: N. greystanesi
Binomial name
Nimiokoala greystanesi
Black and Archer, 1997

The Riversleigh Rainforest Koala (Nimiokoala greystanesi) is an extinct species of marsupial, closely related to the modern Koala, that lived 10-16 million years ago in the middle Miocene of Queensland. It exhibits a similar diet as the modern species except for being only a third of its size, but the mouth protruded from the skull. Only a partial skull has been found to date along with other skeletal fragments.

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