Sinopa
| Sinopa Temporal range: Eocene - Lower Oligocene | |
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| Sinopa grangeri skeleton | |
| Conservation status | |
| Fossil | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Creodonta |
| Family: | Hyaenodontidae |
| Genus: | Sinopa Leidy, 1871 |
| Type species | |
| Sinopa rapax | |
| Species | |
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Sinopa is an extinct genus of creodonts that lived during the Eocene to Early Oligocene in United States and Egypt.[1]
Sinopa rapax
Sinopa was one of the smaller creodonts to the family Hyaenodontidae. His carnassials teeth was 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 the Uinta County, Wyoming, existed 50.3 to 46.2 million years ago.[2]
References
- ↑ "Sinopa". The Paleobioly Database. Retrieved 03/05/2011. Check date values in:
|accessdate=(help) - ↑ 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.
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