Sinopidae
Sinopidae Temporal range: Eocene
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Skeleton of Sinopa major | |
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lower jaw of Prototomus secundarius | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Hyaenodonta |
Family: | †Sinopidae Solé, 2013[1] |
Type genus | |
†Sinopa Leidy, 1871
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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)
- Genus: †Acarictis (Gingerich & Deutsch, 1989)
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