Lycopsis

Lycopsis
Temporal range: Middle Miocene
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Fossil of L. longirostrus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Metatheria
Order: †Sparassodonta
Superfamily: †Borhyaenoidea
Genus: †Lycopsis
[Cabrera, 1927
Species
  • L. torresi Cabrera, 1927 (type species)
  • L. longirostrus Marshall, 1976c
  • L viverensis Forasiepi et al., 2003
Synonyms
  • Anatherium oxyrhynchus, Ameghino, 1894a

Lycopsis is an extinct genus of South American metatherian, that lived during the Miocene in Argentina and Colombia.[1]

Cladogram after the analysis of Suárez et al., 2015:[2]

Sparassodonta

Patene

Hondadelphys

Stylocynus
Hathliacynidae

Acyon

Cladosictis

Sipalocyon

Notogale

Sallacyon






Borhyaenoidea
Lycopsis

Lycopsis longirostrus

Lycopsis viverensis

Lycopsis torresi

Lycopsis padillai

Prothylacynus

Pharsophorus
Borhyaenidae

Borhyaena

Australohyaena

Arctodictis sinclairi

Arctodictis munizi

Callistoe

Paraborhyaena


Thylacosmilidae

Patagosmilus

Thylacosmilus













References

  1. ↑ 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.
  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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