Perikoala

{{Short description|Extinct genus of marsupials}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Late Oligocene

| taxon = Perikoala

| authority = Stirton, 1957

}}

Perikoala is an extinct genus of marsupials, related to the modern koala. The genus diverged from a common ancestor of the other koala genera Nimiokoala, Litokoala, and Phascolarctos, which contains the living koala.{{cite book|last=John A. Long, Michael Archer|title=Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution|publisher=UNSW Press|year=2002|pages=79|isbn=0868404357|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LwMkO0M1mPQC&q=perikoala&pg=PA79}}

Two species are recognised:

• Perikoala palankarinnica Stirton 1957{{fossilworks |id=247548 |title= Perikoala palankarinnica Stirton 1957 (koala)|date=12 February 2022}}
• Perikoala robustus Woodburne et al. 1987M. O. Woodburne, R. H. Tedford, M. Archer and N. S. Pledge. 1987. Madakoala, A new genus and two species of Miocene Koala (Marsupialia: Phascolarctidae) from South Australia, and a new species of Perikoala. Possums and Opossums: Studies in Evolution 1:293-317{{fossilworks |id=247556 |title= Perikoala robustus Woodburne et al. 1987 (koala)|date=12 February 2022}}