Lycopsis

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
  • Anatherium oxyrhynchus Ameghino 1894

Lycopsis is an extinct genus of South American metatherian. It lived during the Miocene of what is now Colombia.[1]

Lycopsis was more likely an ambush hunter than a pounce-pursuit predator, stalking small-to medium-sized prey. The borhyaenids in general were once arboreal, and later changed their life-style to one of living on the ground. The skeleton of Lycopsis has a mosaic of features which show it was not yet a fast runner on the ground.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 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. [1]
Skull

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