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Synoplotherium
Extinct genus of mammals / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Synoplotherium (synonym Dromocyon) is an extinct genus of relatively small, wolf-like mesonychids that lived 50 million years ago, in what is now Wyoming.
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Synoplotherium | |
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Synoplotherium vorax skeleton, Yale. | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Mesonychia |
Family: | †Mesonychidae |
Genus: | †Synoplotherium Cope, 1872 |
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†Synoplotherium vorax Cope, 1872 | |
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Synoplotherium coexisted with its larger relative, Mesonyx. Very little else remains known about this mesonychid since its discovery in 1875.[1]