Biology:Sinopidae

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Short description: Extinct family of mammals

Sinopidae
Temporal range: 56.0–39.7 Ma
Early to Middle Eocene
Sinopa rapax 1.jpg
Skeleton of Sinopa major
Stypolophus multicuspis.jpg
lower jaw of Prototomus secundarius
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Hyaenodonta
Family: Sinopidae
Solé, 2013[1]
Type genus
Sinopa
Leidy, 1871
Genera
  • Acarictis
  • (unranked): †Sinopa clade
    • Prototomus(paraphyletic genus)
    • Sinopa
    • Incertae sedis:
      • †Sinopidae sp. (FMNH PM 59529)
Synonyms

Sinopidae ("swift foxes")[3] is an extinct family of predatory placental mammals from extinct order Hyaenodonta. Fossil remains of these mammals are known from early to middle Eocene deposits in North America, Europe and Asia.[5][6][7][8]

Classification and phylogeny

Taxonomy

  • Family: †Sinopidae (Solé, 2013)
    • Genus: †Acarictis (Gingerich & Deutsch, 1989)
      • Acarictis ryani (Gingerich & Deutsch, 1989)
    • Genus: †Prototomus (Cope, 1874)
      • Prototomus deimos (Gingerich & Deutsch, 1989)
      • Prototomus girardoti (Smith & Smith, 2001)
      • Prototomus martis (Gingerich & Deutsch, 1989)
      • Prototomus minimus (Smith & Smith, 2001)
      • Prototomus phobos (Gingerich & Deutsch, 1989)
      • Prototomus robustus (Matthew & Granger 1915)
      • Prototomus secundarius (Cope, 1875)
      • Prototomus viverrinus (Cope, 1874)
    • Genus: †Sinopa (Leidy, 1871)
      • Sinopa jilinia (Morlo, 2014)
      • Sinopa lania (Matthew, 1909)
      • Sinopa longipes (Peterson, 1919)
      • Sinopa major (Wortman, 1902)
      • Sinopa minor (Wortman, 1902)
      • Sinopa piercei (Bown, 1982)
      • Sinopa pungens (Cope, 1872)
      • Sinopa rapax (Leidy, 1871)

References

  1. Floréal Solé (2013). "New proviverrine genus from the Early Eocene of Europe and the first phylogeny of Late Palaeocene–Middle Eocene hyaenodontidans (Mammalia)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 11 (4): 375–398. doi:10.1080/14772019.2012.686927. 
  2. Michael Morlo; Katharina Bastl; Wu Wenhao; Stephan F. K. Schaal (2014). "The first species of Sinopa (Hyaenodontida, Mammalia) from outside of North America: implications for the history of the genus in the Eocene of Asia and North America". Palaeontology 57 (1): 111–125. doi:10.1111/pala.12052. Bibcode2014Palgy..57..111M. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Floréal Solé; Jocelyn Falconnet; Laurent Yves (2014). "New proviverrines (Hyaenodontida) from the early Eocene of Europe; phylogeny and ecological evolution of the Proviverrinae". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 171 (4): 878–917. doi:10.1111/zoj.12155. 
  4. Trouessart, E. L. (1885.) "Note sur le classification des Analgésiens et diagnoses d'espèces et de genres nouveaux." Bulletin de la Société d'études scientifiques d'Angers, 14, 46–89. [Publ. February, 1885. for year 1884.]
  5. Solé, F.; Lhuillier, J.; Adaci, M.; Bensalah, M.; Mahboubi, M.; Tabuce, R. (2013). "The hyaenodontidans from the Gour Lazib area (?Early Eocene, Algeria): implications concerning the systematics and the origin of the Hyainailourinae and Teratodontinae". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 12 (3): 303–322. doi:10.1080/14772019.2013.795196. 
  6. Borths, Matthew R.; Stevens, Nancy J. (2017). "Deciduous dentition and dental eruption of Hyainailouroidea (Hyaenodonta, "Creodonta," Placentalia, Mammalia)". Palaeontologia Electronica 20 (3): 55A. doi:10.26879/776. http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2017/2056-deciduous-hyaenodont-teeth. 
  7. Matthew R. Borths; Nancy J. Stevens (2019). "Simbakubwa kutokaafrika, gen. et sp. nov. (Hyainailourinae, Hyaenodonta, 'Creodonta,' Mammalia), a gigantic carnivore from the earliest Miocene of Kenya". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 39 (1): e1570222. doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1570222. Bibcode2019JVPal..39E0222B. https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/8009951. 
  8. Floréal Solé; Bernard Marandat; Fabrice Lihoreau (2020). "The hyaenodonts (Mammalia) from the French locality of Aumelas (Hérault), with possible new representatives from the late Ypresian". Geodiversitas 42 (13): 185–214. doi:10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a13. http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/geodiversitas/42/13. 

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