Victorlemoinea

Victorlemoinea is an extinct litoptern genus of the family Macraucheniidae, that lived from the Early to Middle Eocene. Fossils of Victorlemoinea have been found in the Las Flores, Sarmiento and Koluel Kaike Formations of Argentina, the Itaboraí Formation of Brazil and La Meseta Formation, Antarctica.[1]

Victorlemoinea Temporal range: Early-Mid Eocene (Itaboraian-Divisaderan) ~53–37.2 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Litopterna
Family:	†Macraucheniidae
Subfamily:	Sparnotheriodontinae
Genus:	†Victorlemoinea Ameghino 1901
Species
†V. labyrinthica Ameghino 1901 (type) †V. emarginata Ameghino 1901 †V. prototypica Paula Couto 1952 †?V. longidens (Ameghino 1901)

Taxonomy

This animal is considered a member of the family Macraucheniidae and is said to share some features with the mammal family Didolodontidae). Fossils referable to the genus have been found on Seymour Island, Antarctica.[2]

References

1. Victorlemoinea at Fossilworks.org
2. Francis et al., 2006, p.163

Bibliography

• Francis, Jane E.; Duncan Pirrie, and J. Alistair Crame. 2006. Cretaceous-Tertiary High-latitude Palaeoenvironments: James Ross Basin, Antarctica, 1–206. Geological Society of London. Accessed 2017-09-29.