Sinopinae

Extinct clade of mammals From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sinopinae ("swift foxes")[4] is an extinct clade 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]

Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Infraclass:Placentalia
Order:†Hyaenodonta
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Sinopinae
Temporal range: 56.0–39.7 Ma Early to Middle Eocene
Skeleton of Sinopa major
lower jaw of Prototomus secundarius
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Placentalia
Order: †Hyaenodonta
Superfamily: †Limnocyonoidea
Clade: †Sinopinae
Solé, 2013[1]
Type genus
†Sinopa
Leidy, 1871
Genera
[see classification]
Synonyms
list of synonyms:
  • Prototomidae (Morlo, 2014)[2]
  • Sinopaninae (Solé, 2013)
  • Sinopainae (Solé, 2014)
  • Stypolophinae (Trouessart, 1885)[3]
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Classification and phylogeny

Taxonomy

  • Clade: †Sinopinae (Solé, 2013)
    • Genus: †Acarictis (Gingerich & Deutsch, 1989)
      • †Acarictis ryani (Gingerich & Deutsch, 1989)
    • (unranked): †Sinopa clade
      • Genus: †Prototomus (paraphyletic genus) (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)
        • †Sinopa sp. A [AMNH FM 11538] (Matthew, 1906)
      • Incertae sedis:
        • †Sinopinae sp. [FMNH PM 59529] (Tomiya, 2021)

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