Lekaneleo

Lekaneleo
Temporal range: Late Oligocene-Early Miocene
~25–16 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Thylacoleonidae
Genus: Lekaneleo
Gillespie, Archer & Hand, 2020
Type species
Lekaneleo roskellyae
Gillespie, 1997
Other species
  • L. myersi Gillespie, 2023[1]
Synonyms
  • Priscileo roskellyae Gillespie, 1997

Lekaneleo is a fossil genus of carnivorous marsupial that existed during the early Miocene in Australia. Once allied to the type species of the genus Priscileo, later placed as Wakaleo pitikantensis, "Priscileo" roskellyae was subsequently transferred to its own genus Lekaneleo.[2]

  1. ^ Gillespie, A. K. (2023). "Two new marsupial lion taxa (Marsupialia, Thylacoleonidae) from the early and Middle Miocene of Australia". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 47 (4): 506–521. Bibcode:2023Alch...47..506G. doi:10.1080/03115518.2022.2152096. S2CID 256157821.
  2. ^ Gillespie, A. (1997). "Priscileo roskellyae sp. nov. (Thylacoleonidae, Marsupialia) from the Oligocene-Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 41: 321–327.