Lycopsis

Lycopsis
Temporal range: Mid-Late Miocene (Santacrucian-Chasicoan)
~16.3–9.0 Ma
Fossil of L. longirostrus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
†Sparassodonta
Superfamily:
†Borhyaenoidea
Genus:
†Lycopsis

Cabrera 1927
Species
  • L. torresi Cabrera 1927 (type species)
  • L. longirostrus Marshall 1976
  • L. viverensis Forasiepi et al. 2003
Synonyms

Lycopsis is an extinct genus of South American metatherian that lived during the Miocene in Argentina and Colombia.[1]

  1. ^ Argot, C. (2004). "Functional-adaptive analysis of the postcranial skeleton of a Laventan borhyaenoid, Lycopsis longirostris (Marsupialia, Mammalia)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 24 (3): 689–708. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2004)024[0689:FAOTPS]2.0.CO;2.