Lycopsis

Lycopsis Temporal range: Middle Miocene PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Fossil of L. longirostrus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Metatheria
Order:	†Sparassodonta
Superfamily:	†Borhyaenoidea
Genus:	†Lycopsis [Cabrera, 1927
Species
L. torresi Cabrera, 1927 (type species) L. longirostrus Marshall, 1976c L viverensis Forasiepi et al., 2003
Synonyms
Anatherium oxyrhynchus, Ameghino, 1894a

Lycopsis is an extinct genus of South American metatherian, that lived during the Miocene.^[1]

Cladogram after the analysis of Suárez et al., 2015:^[2]

Sparassodonta	Patene Hondadelphys Stylocynus Hathliacynidae Acyon Cladosictis Sipalocyon Notogale Sallacyon Borhyaenoidea Lycopsis Lycopsis longirostrus Lycopsis viverensis Lycopsis torresi Lycopsis padillai Prothylacynus Pharsophorus Borhyaenidae Borhyaena Australohyaena Arctodictis sinclairi Arctodictis munizi Callistoe Paraborhyaena Thylacosmilidae Patagosmilus Thylacosmilus

References

1. Argot, C. (2004). "Functional-adaptive analysis of the postcranial skeleton of a Laventan borhyaenoid, Lycopsis longirostris (Marsupialia, Mammalia)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24 (3): 689. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2004)024[0689:FAOTPS]2.0.CO;2.
2. Suárez, C.; Forasiepi, A. M.; Goin, F. J.; Jaramillo, C. (2015). "Insights into the Neotropics prior to the Great American Biotic Interchange: new evidence of mammalian predators from the Miocene of Northern Colombia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Online edition: e1029581. doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.1029581.

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