Koalemus de Vis, 1889

Louys, Julien & Price, Gilbert J., 2015, The Chinchilla Local Fauna: An exceptionally rich and well-preserved Pliocene vertebrate assemblage from fluviatile deposits of south-eastern Queensland, Australia, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60 (3), pp. 551-572 : 562

Genus Koalemus de Vis, 1889

Type species: Koalemus ingens de Vis, 1889 , unknown location, but likely Chinchilla, Pliocene.

Koalemus ingens de Vis, 1889 Fig. 6A .

Material. — QM F683 (partial right fibula), locality uncertain,?Pliocene.

Remarks. — Bartholomai (1968) considered the specimen to be from Chinchilla on the basis of its preservation. Although de Vis (1889c) suggested affinities of the species with the modern koala, Bartholomai (1968) suggested it be referred to Diprotodontidae incertae sedis. We consider Koalemus ingens a as species inquirenda.

Stratigraphic and geographic range.—Uncertain, possibly Pliocene, eastern Australia.

Figures

Fig. 6. Mammal species of uncertain taxonomic identity from unspecified localities near Chinchilla, Australia, Pliocene. A. Koalemus ingens de Vis, 1889, QM F683, partial right fibula. B. Synaptodon aevorum de Vis, 1888, QM F811, right dentary fragment. C. Archizonurus securus de Vis, 1889, QM F682, proximal left scapula. D. Phalanger procuscus (de Vis, 1889), QM F687, right scapula. E. Chronozoon australe de Vis, 1883, QM F610, calvarium. F. Brachalletes palmeri de Vis, 1883, QM F3308, right femur. Scale bars 10 mm.