Sinopa
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| Sinopa grangeri skeleton | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Hyaenodonta |
| Family: | †Sinopidae |
| Genus: | †Sinopa Leidy, 1871 |
| Type species | |
| Sinopa rapax Leidy, 1871
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Sinopa is an extinct genus of hyaeanodontid that lived during the Eocene to Early Oligocene in United States and Asia.[1]
Description
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Sinopa was a small hyaenodontid. Its carnassial teeth were the second upper molar and the lower third. Sinopa had an estimated weight of 1.3 to 1.4 kilograms. The type specimen was found in the Bridger formation in Uinta County, Wyoming, and existed 50.3 to 46.2 million years ago.[2]
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.[3]
References
- ^ "Sinopa". The Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 3 May 2011.
- ^ S. Schaal, M. Morlo, Chen, Y.L and Li C.T. First Asian Sinopa (Proviverrinae, Hyaenodontinae, Creodonta) from the late middle Eocene of Northern China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27, sup. a 3.
- ^ 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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