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Sinopa

Sinopa
Temporal range: Eocene–Early Oligocene
Sinopa grangeri - National Museum of Natural History - IMG 2008.JPG
Sinopa grangeri skeleton
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Creodonta
Family: Hyaenodontidae
Genus: Sinopa
Leidy, 1871
Type species
Sinopa rapax
Leidy, 1871
Species
  • S. major
  • S. ethiopica
  • S. grangeri
  • S. rapax

Sinopa is an extinct genus of hyaeanodontid that lived during the Eocene to Early Oligocene in United States and Egypt.

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.



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