Synoplotherium
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| Synoplotherium Temporal range: Eocene | |
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| Synoplotherium vorax skeleton, Yale. | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Mesonychia |
| Family: | Mesonychidae |
| Genus: | Synoplotherium |
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Synoplotherium (also known as "Dromocyon") is an extinct genus of relatively small, wolf-like mesonychids that lived 50 million years ago, in what is now Wyoming.[1]
Synoplotherium vorax
Restoration by Robert Bruce Horsfall
Synoplotherium was related to, coexisted, and possibly competed with the larger Mesonyx.
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