Metasinopa

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Metasinopa
Temporal range: 33.9–30.0 Ma
Early Oligocene
File:Metasinopa fraasii.jpg
lower jaw of Metasinopa fraasii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Hyaenodonta
Superfamily: Hyainailouroidea
Family: Teratodontidae
Subfamily: Teratodontinae
Genus: Metasinopa
Osborn, 1909[1]
Type species
Metasinopa fraasi
Osborn, 1909[1]
Species
  • M. ethiopica (Andrews, 1906)[2]
  • M. fraasi (Osborn, 1909)[1]
  • M. osborni (Holroyd, 1994)[3]
  • M. sp. [DPC 4544 & DPC 10199] (Matthew, 2017)[4]
Synonyms
synonyms of species:
  • M. ethiopica:
    • Brychotherium ethiopica (Holroyd, 1994)
    • Sinopa aethiopica (Hopwood & Hollyfield, 1954)[5]
    • Sinopa ethiopica (Andrews, 1906)

Metasinopa ("next to Sinopa") is an extinct genus of hyaenodonts from extinct family Teratodontidae that lived during the early Oligocene in Egypt (northern Africa).

Taxonomy

[edit | edit source]

Although Metasinopa fraasi is the only unambiguous species of the genus, the early Miocene species Metasinopa napaki from Uganda was originally assigned to Metasinopa by Savage (1965), but was later moved to Paracynohyaenodon by van Valen (1967), and is now assigned to the Miocene Anasinopa, as A. napaki.[6] "Sinopa" ethiopica has been assigned to Metasinopa following Savage (1965), but may be its own genus considering its younger age relative to M. fraasi.[7]

References

[edit | edit source]
  1. ^ a b c H. F. Osborn (1909.) "New carnivorous mammals from the Fayûm Oligocene, Egypt." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 26:415-424
  2. ^ C. W. Andrews (1906.) "A Descriptive Catalogue of the Tertiary Vertebrata of Fayum, Egypt" 1-324
  3. ^ Holroyd, Patricia Ann (1994.) "An examination of dispersal origins of Fayum Mammalia" Duke University, Ph.D. dissertation.
  4. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  5. ^ Arthur Tindell Hopwood, June Pamela Hollyfield (1954.) "An Annotated Bibliography of the Fossil Mammals of Africa (1742-1950)", order of the Trustees of the British Museum
  6. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  7. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).

Lua error in Module:Taxonbar at line 165: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).