Metasinopa
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| Metasinopa Temporal range: Early Oligocene
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| File:Metasinopa fraasii.jpg | |
| lower jaw of Metasinopa fraasii | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Hyaenodonta |
| Superfamily: | †Hyainailouroidea |
| Family: | †Teratodontidae |
| Subfamily: | †Teratodontinae |
| Genus: | †Metasinopa Osborn, 1909[1] |
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| †Metasinopa fraasi Osborn, 1909[1]
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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
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- ^ 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
- ^ C. W. Andrews (1906.) "A Descriptive Catalogue of the Tertiary Vertebrata of Fayum, Egypt" 1-324
- ^ Holroyd, Patricia Ann (1994.) "An examination of dispersal origins of Fayum Mammalia" Duke University, Ph.D. dissertation.
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