Sinopa Explained

Sinopa ("swift fox")[1] is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct family Sinopidae within extinct order Hyaenodonta, that lived in North America and Asia from the early to middle Eocene.[2] [3]

Description

Sinopa was a small genus of hyaenodontid mammals. Its carnassial teeth were the second upper molar and the lower third. Sinopa species had an estimated weight of 1.33 to 13.97 kilograms.[4] The type specimen was found in the Bridger formation in Uinta County, Wyoming, and existed 50.3 to 46.2 million years ago.

Taxonomy

The putative African species "Sinopa" ethiopica from Egypt was considered a species of Metasinopa by Savage (1965), although Holroyd (1994) considered it a potential new genus related to Quasiapterodon.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Floréal Solé . Jocelyn Falconnet . Laurent Yves . 2014 . New proviverrines (Hyaenodontida) from the early Eocene of Europe; phylogeny and ecological evolution of the Proviverrinae . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 171 . 4 . 878–917 . 10.1111/zoj.12155. free .
  2. Web site: Sinopa . The Paleobiology Database . 3 May 2011.
  3. Tomiya . S. . Zack . S. P. . Spaulding . M. . Flynn . J. J. . Carnivorous mammals from the middle Eocene Washakie Formation, Wyoming, USA, and their diversity trajectory in a post-warming world . 2021 . Journal of Paleontology . 95 . Supplement S82 . 1–115 . 10.1017/jpa.2020.74. 2021JPal...95S...1T . free . 2433/274918 . free .
  4. Egi, Naoko . 2001 . Body mass estimates in extinct mammals from limb bone dimensions: the case of North American hyaenodontids. . Palaeontology . 44 . 3 . 497–528 . 10.1111/1475-4983.00189 . 2001Palgy..44..497E . 128832577 . 2021-03-19 . 2022-04-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220413165359/http://www.pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/shinka/keitou/egi-HP/PDF-folder/Egi01Palaeontol.pdf . dead .
  5. Lewis, M. E., Morlo, M. (2010): Creodonta. – In : Werdelin, L., Sanders, W. (eds), Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University of California Press, Berkeley, pp. 543–560. https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520257214.003.0026

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