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Victorlemoineia

Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae

Taxonomy

Victorlemoineia was named by Ameghino (1901). Its type is Victorlemoineia labyrinthica.

It was assigned to Meniscotheriidae by Ameghino (1901); to Proterotheriidae by Simpson (1935); to Sparnotheriodontidae by Cifelli (1983); and to Macraucheniidae by Simpson (1948), Paula Couto (1952) and Carroll (1988).

Species

Victorlemoinea longidens, V. emarginata, V. labyrinthica (type species), V. prototypica

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1901	Victorlemoineia Ameghino p. 387
1935	Victorlemoineia Simpson p. 10
1948	Victorlemoinea Simpson
1952	Victorlemoineia Paula Couto
1983	Victorlemoinea Cifelli
1988	Victorlemoineia Carroll

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha

Rank	Name	Author
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Theriamorpha	(Rowe 1993)
—	Theriiformes	()
—	Trechnotheria
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Laurasiatheria
—	Scrotifera
—	Euungulata
—	Panperissodactyla
order	Panameriungulata
suborder	Litopterna	(Ameghino 1889)
family	Macraucheniidae
genus	Victorlemoineia

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Victorlemoineia Ameghino 1901

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†Victorlemoinea longidens Ameghino 1901

†Victorlemoineia emarginata Ameghino 1901

†Victorlemoineia labyrinthica Ameghino 1901

†Victorlemoineia prototypica Paula Couto 1952

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialsubc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

scansorialsubc

Diet:

herbivoreo

Reproduction:

viviparoussubc

Created:

2009-01-05 17:11:35

Modified:

2009-01-05 19:11:35

Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum

References: Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, MacFadden et al. 1996, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Ypresian to the top of the Bartonian or 56.00000 to 38.00000 Ma

Collections (8 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Riochican	57.0 - 55.8	Argentina (Chubut)	V. sp. (13781)
Ypresian	56.0 - 47.8	Argentina (Chubut)	V. sp. (133040)
Early/Lower Eocene	55.8 - 48.6	Brazil (Rio de Janeiro)	V. prototypica (118314)
Lutetian	47.8 - 41.3	Argentina (Chubut)	Victorlemoineia indet. (44956 176170) V. longidens (176059)
Lutetian - Bartonian	47.8 - 38.0	Argentina (Chubut)	V. labyrinthica, V. emarginata, Anisolambda longidens (176164)
Bartonian - Priabonian	41.3 - 33.9	Antarctica	Victorlemoinea sp. (173115)