Literature
Neocene Submission : Banjora
Banjora, False Koala (Pseudophascolarctos rotundus)
Order: Two Fore Teeth (Diprotodontia)
Family: Phalangers and cuscus (Phalangeridae), Subfamily Pseudophascolarctidae (monotypic)
Habitat: Jarrah forests of the southeast of Meganesia, temperate forests of eastern Meganesia, exclusively where eucalyptus trees grow.
Specialized kinds of animal often suffer the worst effects of mass extinction, and thus the Koala suffered extinctions at the hands of man’s forest clearing and disturbance in Australia during the Late Holocene. But the niche of a slow-clambering exclusive leaf-eater is one that has often been repeated by evolution, and so it happens again with the False Koala, or Banjora (coming from an Aboriginal boy’s name meaning Koala). The ancestor of this species was the rather generalist Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula), as we often see, specialists commonly evolve from more generalized ancestors.
Outwardly it is a stocky round animal with a large hindquarters and a stubby
