Sinopa ("swift fox")[12] is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct family Sinopidae within extinct order Hyaenodonta, that lived in North America and Asia from the early to middle Eocene.[13][14]
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Sinopa
Temporal range: 50.5–39.7 Ma Early to Middle Eocene |
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Sinopa major skeleton |
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Sinopa rapax skeleton |
Scientific classification |
Domain: |
Eukaryota |
Kingdom: |
Animalia |
Phylum: |
Chordata |
Class: |
Mammalia |
Order: |
†Hyaenodonta |
Family: |
†Sinopidae |
Genus: |
†Sinopa Leidy, 1871 |
Type species |
†Sinopa rapax
Leidy, 1871 |
Species |
- †S. jilinia (Morlo, 2014)[1]
- †S. lania (Matthew, 1909)[2]
- †S. longipes (Peterson, 1919)[3]
- †S. major (Wortman, 1902)[4]
- †S. minor (Wortman, 1902)
- †S. piercei (Bown, 1982)[5]
- †S. pungens (Cope, 1872)[6]
- †S. rapax (Leidy, 1871)[7]
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Synonyms[8] |
- Mimocyon (Peterson, 1919)
- Proviverroides (Bown, 1982)
- Stypolophus (Cope, 1872)
- Triacodon (Marsh, 1871)
- Miacis longipes (Simpson, 1945)
- Mimocyon longipes (Peterson, 1919)
- Proviverra longipes (Dawson, 1980)
- Proviverra grangeri (Van Valen, 1965)[9]
- Proviverra major (Gustafson, 1986)[10]
- Sinopa grangeri (Matthew, 1906)
- Proviverra minor (Van Valen, 1965)
- Proviverroides piercei (Bown, 1982)
- Proviverra pungens (Van Valen, 1965)
- Stypolophus pungens (Cope, 1872)
- Proviverra rapax (Van Valen, 1965)
- Sinopa aculeatus (Cope, 1871)[11]
- Stypolophus aculeatus (Cope, 1872)
- Stypolophus rapax
- Triacodon aculeatus (Cope, 1872)
- Triacodon fallax (Marsh, 1872)
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