Sinopa

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Sinopa
Temporal range: Eocene–Early Oligocene
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Sinopa grangeri skeleton
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Class: Mammalia
Order: Hyaenodonta
Family: Hyaenodontidae
Genus: †Sinopa
Type species
Sinopa rapax
Leidy, 1871
Species
  • S. major
  • S. ethiopica
  • S. grangeri
  • S. rapax

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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 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

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  2. 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.