Lycopsis
Lycopsis Temporal range: Middle Miocene | |
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Fossil of L. longirostris | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Metatheria |
Order: | †Sparassodonta |
Family: | †Borhyaenidae |
Genus: | †Lycopsis [Cabrera, 1927 |
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Lycopsis is an extinct genus of South American metatherian, that lived during the Miocene.[1]
References
- ↑ Argot, C. (2004). "Functional-adaptive analysis of the postcranial skeleton of a Laventan borhyaenoid, Lycopsis longirostris (Marsupialia, Mammalia)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24 (3): 689. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2004)024[0689:FAOTPS]2.0.CO;2.
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