''Koobor'' is an exinct genus of

extinct Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...

phascolarctid The Phascolarctidae (''φάσκωλος (phaskolos)'' - pouch or bag, ''ἄρκτος (arktos)'' - bear, from the Greek ''phascolos'' + ''arctos'' meaning pouched bear) is a family (biology), family of Marsupialia, marsupials of the order Diprot ...

marsupials Marsupials are any members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia. All extant marsupials are endemic to Australasia, Wallacea and the Americas. A distinctive characteristic common to most of these species is that the young are carried in a po ...

. The genus contains two species: ''Koobor jimbarratti'' and ''Koobor notabillis''.Archer, M.; Wade, M. 1976: Results of the Ray E. Lemley Expeditions, Part 1. The Allingham Formation and a new Pliocene vertebrate fauna from northern Queensland. ''Memoirs of the Queensland Museum'', 17(3): 379–398. bstract only seen/ref>

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* Koalas Prehistoric vombatiforms Fossil taxa described in 1976 Prehistoric mammals of Australia Prehistoric marsupial genera {{Diprotodont-stub