Back Nimiokoala German Nimiokoala greystanesi Spanish נימיוקואלה HE Riversleigh esőerdei koala Hungarian レインフォレストコアラ Japanese Nimiokoala greystanesi Russian Nimiokoala greystanesi Turkish Nimiokoala Ukrainian 里弗斯利雨林無尾熊 Chinese
| Nimiokoala Temporal range: Early-middle Miocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | Phascolarctidae |
| Genus: | †Nimiokoala Black and Archer, 1997 |
| Species: | †N. greystanesi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Nimiokoala greystanesi Black and Archer, 1997[1]
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Nimiokoala greystanesi is an extinct marsupial, closely related to the extant koala, that inhabited northwestern Queensland in the early-middle Miocene (23–16 million years ago).[2] It is the only species assigned to the genus Nimiokoala. Along with species of sister genus Litokoala, it is the smallest representative of family Phascolarctidae.[3] Based on cladistic analysis, Nimiokoala is one of the more basal genera of Phascolarctide. It died out due to climate change rendering the environment more arid.[4] It probably had a more generalized diet than that of the modern species, but its exact food preferences are unknown.[5]
- ^ Black & Archer 1997.
- ^ Black et al. 2014, pp. 1193–1194.
- ^ Black et al. 2014, p. 1192.
- ^ Black et al. 2014, p. 1195.
- ^ Musser 2009.