Metasinopa

Metasinopa is an extinct genus of hyainailourid that lived during the Eocene to Early Oligocene in northern Africa.

Metasinopa
Temporal range: Eocene–Early Oligocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Hyaenodonta
Family: †Hyainailouridae
Genus: †Metasinopa
Osborn, 1909
Type species
Metasinopa fraasi
Osborn, 1909
Species
  • M. fraasi Osborn, 1909 (Type)

Taxonomy

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.[1] "Sinopa" ethiopicus has been assigned to Metasinopa following Savage (1965), but may be its own genus considering its younger age relative to M. fraasi.[2]

References
  1. Jorge Morales; Martin Pickford, 2017. New hyaenodonts (Ferae, Mammalia) from the Early Miocene of Napak (Uganda), Koru (Kenya) and Grillental (Namibia). Fossil Imprint. 73 (3–4): 332–359. doi:10.1515/if-2017-0019 fi.nm.cz
  2. Lewis, M. E., Morlo, M. (2010): Creodonta. – In : Werdelin, L., Sanders, W. (eds), Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University of California Press, Berkeley, pp. 543–560. https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520257214.003.0026
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