Sinopinae

Sinopinae Temporal range: 56.0–39.7  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Early to Middle Eocene
Skeleton of Sinopa major
lower jaw of Prototomus secundarius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
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]

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]}

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)

References

1. Floréal Solé (2013). "New proviverrine genus from the Early Eocene of Europe and the first phylogeny of Late Palaeocene–Middle Eocene hyaenodontidans (Mammalia)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 11 (4): 375–398. doi:10.1080/14772019.2012.686927. S2CID   84734979.
2. Michael Morlo; Katharina Bastl; Wu Wenhao; Stephan F. K. Schaal (2014). "The first species of Sinopa (Hyaenodontida, Mammalia) from outside of North America: implications for the history of the genus in the Eocene of Asia and North America". Palaeontology. 57 (1): 111–125. Bibcode:2014Palgy..57..111M. doi: 10.1111/pala.12052 . S2CID   129633205.
3. Trouessart, E. L. (1885.) "Note sur le classification des Analgésiens et diagnoses d'espèces et de genres nouveaux." Bulletin de la Société d'études scientifiques d'Angers, 14, 46–89. [Publ. February, 1885. for year 1884.]
4. Floréal Solé; Jocelyn Falconnet; Laurent Yves (2014). "New proviverrines (Hyaenodontida) from the early Eocene of Europe; phylogeny and ecological evolution of the Proviverrinae". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 171 (4): 878–917. doi: 10.1111/zoj.12155 .
5. Solé, F.; Lhuillier, J.; Adaci, M.; Bensalah, M.; Mahboubi, M.; Tabuce, R. (2013). "The hyaenodontidans from the Gour Lazib area (?Early Eocene, Algeria): implications concerning the systematics and the origin of the Hyainailourinae and Teratodontinae". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 12 (3): 303–322. doi:10.1080/14772019.2013.795196. S2CID   84475034.
6. Borths, Matthew R.; Stevens, Nancy J. (2017). "Deciduous dentition and dental eruption of Hyainailouroidea (Hyaenodonta, "Creodonta," Placentalia, Mammalia)". Palaeontologia Electronica. 20 (3): 55A. doi: 10.26879/776 .
7. Matthew R. Borths; Nancy J. Stevens (2019). "Simbakubwa kutokaafrika, gen. et sp. nov. (Hyainailourinae, Hyaenodonta, 'Creodonta,' Mammalia), a gigantic carnivore from the earliest Miocene of Kenya" . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 39 (1) e1570222. Bibcode:2019JVPal..39E0222B. doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1570222. S2CID   145972918.
8. Floréal Solé; Bernard Marandat; Fabrice Lihoreau (2020). "The hyaenodonts (Mammalia) from the French locality of Aumelas (Hérault), with possible new representatives from the late Ypresian". Geodiversitas. 42 (13): 185–214. doi: 10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a13 . S2CID   219585388.