Lycopsis
| Lycopsis Temporal range: Mid Miocene (Laventan) ~13.8–11.8 Ma | |
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| Fossil of L. longirostrus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Metatheria |
| Order: | †Sparassodonta |
| Superfamily: | †Borhyaenoidea |
| Genus: | †Lycopsis [Cabrera, 1927 |
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Lycopsis is an extinct genus of South American metatherian, that lived during the Miocene in Argentina and Colombia.[1]
Taxonomy
Skull of Lycopsis
The cladogram after the analysis of Suárez et al., 2015, looks as follows:[2]
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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.
- ↑ Suárez, C.; Forasiepi, A. M.; Goin, F. J.; Jaramillo, C. (2015). "Insights into the Neotropics prior to the Great American Biotic Interchange: new evidence of mammalian predators from the Miocene of Northern Colombia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Online edition: e1029581. doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.1029581.
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