Sinopa
| Sinopa Temporal range: Eocene–Early Oligocene | |
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| Sinopa grangeri skeleton | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Creodonta |
| Family: | †Hyaenodontidae |
| Genus: | †Sinopa |
| Type species | |
| Sinopa rapax Leidy, 1871 | |
| Species | |
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Sinopa is an extinct genus of hyaeanodontid that lived during the Eocene to Early Oligocene in United States and Egypt.[1]
Sinopa rapax
Sinopa was a small hyaenodontid. Its carnassial teeth were 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 Uinta County, Wyoming, and existed 50.3 to 46.2 million years ago.[2]
References
- ↑ "Sinopa". The Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 03/05/2011. Check date values in:
|access-date=(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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