Victorlemoineia prototypica Paula Couto 1952 (placental)

Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae

Full reference: C. d. Paula Couto. 1952. Fossil mammals from the beginning of the Cenozoic in Brazil. Condylarthra, Litopterna, Xenungulata, and Astrapotheria. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 99(6):355-394

Belongs to Victorlemoineia according to C. d. Paula Couto 1952

Sister taxa: Victorlemoinea longidens, Victorlemoineia emarginata, Victorlemoineia labyrinthica

Type specimen: MNRJ 1470-V, a tooth (Right m2 or 3). Its type locality is São José de Itaborai, which is in an Eocene fissure fill marl in the Itaboraí Formation of Brazil.

Ecology: scansorial herbivore

Distribution: found only at São José de Itaborai

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