Lumakoala
| Lumakoala Temporal range:
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| Holotype (a-e) and paratype (f-h) specimens of Lumakoala blackae | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | Phascolarctidae (?) |
| Genus: | †Lumakoala Crichton et al., 2023 |
| Species: | †L. blackae
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| Binomial name | |
| †Lumakoala blackae Crichton et al., 2023
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Lumakoala is an extinct genus of probable phascolarctid that inhabited the Northern Territory of Australia during the Late Oligocene. It was a member of the Pwerte Marnte Marnte Local Fauna and lived alongside two other koala species. It likely fed on soft plants and, occasionally, insects. The genus contains only a single species, Lumakoala blackae, known from a few isolated teeth.