Synoplotherium

Synoplotherium
Temporal range: Eocene
Synoplotherium vorax skeleton, Yale.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Mesonychia
Family: Mesonychidae
Genus: Synoplotherium
Species
  • S. vorax Cope, 1872
Synonyms
  • Dromocyon Marsh, 1876

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 coexisted with its larger relative, Mesonyx.

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