Invictokoala monticola is an extinct phascolarctid marsupial mammal from the middle Pleistocene of central-eastern Queensland, Australia. The holotype was found during cave excavations at Mount Etna (a local mountain in central-eastern Queensland which was named after the famed Sicilian volcano). It was first named by Gilbert J. Price and Scott A. Hocknull in 2011.[1]
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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: | †Invictokoala Price & Hocknull, 2011 |
| Species: | †I. monticola
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| †Invictokoala monticola Price & Hocknull, 2011
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References
edit- ^ Price, Gilbert J.; Hocknull, Scott A. (2011). "Invictokoala monticola gen. et sp. nov. (Phascolarctidae, Marsupialia), a Pleistocene plesiomorphic koala holdover from Oligocene ancestors" (PDF). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 9 (2): 327–335. Bibcode:2011JSPal...9..327P. doi:10.1080/14772019.2010.504079. S2CID 84316375.
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