Name: Lekaneleo.
Phonetic: Le-kan-e-le-oh.
Named By: Anna K. Gillespie, Michael Archer
& Suzanne J. Hand - 2020.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia,
Marsupialia, Diprotodontia, Thylacoleonidae.
Species: L. roskellyae
(type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Unknown.
Known locations: Australia.
Time period: Early Miocene.
Fossil representation: Partial skull.
Lekaneleo
is a genus of thylacoleonid marsupial that lived in Australia during
the Miocene period. Lekaneleo is a relative of the
better known
Thylacoleo,
and like Thylacoleo, Lekaneleo
would have been a
powerful predator.
Further reading
- Priscileo roskellyae sp. nov. (Thylacoleonidae, Marsupialia)
from the Oligocene-Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland.
- Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 41: 321–327. - A.
Gillespie - 1997.
- Lekaneleo, a new genus of marsupial lion
(Marsupialia,
Thylacoleonidae) from the Oligocene–Miocene of Australia, and the
craniodental morphology of L. roskellyae, comb. nov. -
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 39 (5): e1703722. -
Anna K. Gillespie, Michael Archer & Suzanne J. Hand
- 2020.