Lycopsis
Lycopsis is an extinct genus of South American metatherian, that lived during the Miocene in Argentina and Colombia.[1]
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| Superfamily: | †Borhyaenoidea |
| Genus: | †Lycopsis Cabrera 1927 |
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Taxonomy
Skull of Lycopsis
The cladogram after the analysis of Suárez et al., 2015, looks as follows:[2]
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Distribution
Fossils of Lycopsis have been found in:[3]
- Arroyo Chasicó Formation and Santa Cruz Formations, Argentina
- Honda Group, Colombia
References
- 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.
- 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.
- Lycopsis at Fossilworks.org
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